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#century

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #century




In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.


John Lothrop Motley


#century #faded #forms #later #old

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!


Roger Corman


#art #art form #artform #business #century

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.


Martin Sheen


#brightest #century #clinton #i #i think

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.


Michael Shermer


#ago #atoms #body #born #brain

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.


Isaac Bashevis Singer


#complete #flop #half #second #twentieth

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.


Peter Singer


#accept #access #back #century #done

To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.


Dejan Stojanovic


#century #circling #dejan-stojanovic #high #impossible

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#literary-criticism #literary-theory #narrative #nineteenth-century #novels

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.


Aharon Appelfeld


#also #become #besides #biography #cannot

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.


Michael Beschloss


#around #began #century #congress #develop






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