#century

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#21st century #allow #century #european #even

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#back #banking #century #crises #depression

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good. ↗

— John McGahern

#changes #different #feel #good #grew

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#century #get #i #i think #need

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. ↗

— Alfred Leslie Rowse

#filthy #guts #hate #i #twentieth

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#art #art history #basically #century #early

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#centuries #century #changes #conception #education

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#century #colour #direct #facing #last

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#about #almost #belong #century #composers