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I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. — Christian McKay

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow

Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake. — Bernie Sanders

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge. — Martin Wolf

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge. — Newton Lee

Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America. — Jennifer Harrison

The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence, — Adam Nicolson

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore

I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing. — Billy Graham

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. — Milan Kundera

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk. — Tori Amos

I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century. — Anthony Pratt

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. — Pete Hamill

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. — Martin Scorsese

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud. — William H. Calvin

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play. — Carol Ann Duffy

We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century. — Ann McLane Kuster

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier. — Bruce Sterling

It's been a tough century for modesty, craftsmanship and tenderness. — David Bayles

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. — Bill Henson

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century. — Fred Astaire

How is it that food STILL contains calories that make you gain weight in the 21st CENTURY?! It's like scientists aren't even trying! — Tanya Masse

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. — Stephen Kinzer

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century. — Tom Lenk

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. — Jethro Tull

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier. — Cass Sunstein

Different century. It's totally okay. — Gwenn Wright

Cigarettes are out. Social media is in. It's the drug of the twenty-first century. (At least people who smoke stand outside together.) Like — Simon Sinek

How's your dance card look?" "Double-check your century Jules. No dance cards." Jules shrugged & gave me his most flirtatious smile. — Amy Plum

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy

It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive."
"Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car. — Janet Evanovich

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. — Bill Nye

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions. — Howard Fast

I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us. — Penelope Lively

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern

Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century. — Steve Erickson

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources — Rahul Gandhi

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. — Patti Smith

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

That's sheer luck too: luck of the draw of birth: century, continent, nation, section, sex, color, socioeconomic sector. — Marilyn French

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly. — Warren Buffett

Presentation literacy isn't an optional extra for the few. It's a core skill for the twenty-first century. — Chris J. Anderson

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' — Neale Donald Walsch

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more. — Martin Seligman

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers. — Leonard Slatkin

You know it's the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper. — Tanya Masse

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent. — Edward James Olmos

After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. — P. J. O'Rourke

For recessional music there's "Closing Time" by Semisonic, a four-chord farewell to the old century. — Thomas Pynchon

The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken. (pg. 125) — Ellen F. Davis

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian. — Ingrid Newkirk

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley Robinson

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century. — Denny Rehberg

I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower. — Hillary Clinton

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. — Thomas Szasz

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Saki

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods. — Andre Malraux

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue. — Samuel Goldwyn

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over. — Gerhard Schroder

Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There's always been a women's movement this century! — Mary Stott

The century's most radical vice ... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete. — Paul Johnson

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. — David S. Rose

I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox. — Anna Freeman

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. — Mark Twain

I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain. — Rebecca McNutt

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. — Beeban Kidron

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men. — Millicent Garrett Fawcett

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century. — David Soul

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century. — David Letterman

Girly' products can spur Japan's growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the 'manly' technologies. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi

By the late twentieth century, Jefferson's windfall would be feeding much of the world. — Edward E. Baptist

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S.I. Hayakawa

The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century. — Rob Portman

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find. — Alexander McCall Smith

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. — Jerry Coleman

In the Internet Century, a product manager's job is to work together with the people who design, engineer, and develop things to make great products. — Eric Schmidt

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. — Sebastian Arcelus

The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century. — Jay Parini

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries. — Garrett Fort

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century. — Bjork

Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being. — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling. — Joseph Turow

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

it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first. — David S. Rose

Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in. — Johnny Vegas