#century

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#century #chair #couch #editorial #nineteenth

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#believe #century #challenge #challenging #doing

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#author #boyfriend #crush #dead #girl

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

#century #changes #chiefly #close #connection

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#acceleration #any #century #changes #decade

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy. ↗

— Kit Bond

#cannot #century #companies #compete #economy

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#anything #century #condemned #draw #each

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

#century #dramas #frank #glorification #great