#century

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#came #century #first #gadgets #i

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#began #century #end #prose #romances

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#along #big #books #came #century

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#century #made #need #reason #terrifying

But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#century #connected #ever #everyone #going

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #biology #century #part #physics

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism. ↗

— David Eagleman

#decade #extremism #first #going #i

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#century #damage #done #earth #history

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#alive #am #brain #century #doing