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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty. — John Dryden

The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches. — Erin Kelly

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. — Robert Southey

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now. — John Edensor Littlewood

Twenty-first-century technology takes the fate out of life. — Gwendolyn Heasley

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history. — M.F. Moonzajer

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only. — Barbara Mikulski

According to the laws of early twenty-first century cinema, anyone speaking Japanese is in a horror movie. If — Seth Grahame-Smith

The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you. — David Amerland

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop. — Jeremy Lin

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence. — John Brunner

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. — Phyllis Chesler

The first of Sam and Rosie's children was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering. — Martin O'Malley

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama

What was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of the year. — Amor Towles

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel. — Jane Green

The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact — Christina Baker Kline

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

Twenty years ago. First, when you take a static picture of society, people — Ben Goldacre

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. — William Carey

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 progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Those living in palaces have always had different agendas to those living in shacks, and that is unlikely to change in the twenty-first century. — Yuval Noah Harari

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. — Kevin Smith

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking. — Ernest Cline

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography. — Jeffery Deaver

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

...the first twenty years of the republic had done more harm to Italy than the Fascists and Nazis combined. — Marco Vichi

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team. — Just Fontaine

Ghosts, unicorns, and gods. That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century. — Rick Riordan

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. — Chuck Hagel

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life. — Edward Gibbon

Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs — Robert Coover

Sergeant Paul Ramoneda, a twenty-eight-year-old baker with the Ninth Food Service Squadron, was one of the first to reach the bomber. — Eric Schlosser

But he's genuine twenty-first-century and only faking patience. — Skyler White

Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. — Jane McGonigal

May 27, 2013 It's hard not to think about Chris on his twenty-first birthday. — Cassia Leo

Information and intelligence is the fire and maneuver of the twenty-first century," says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, — Mark Bowden

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. — Ismail Serageldin

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
("The Castle") — Michael Connelly

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. — Jonathan Sacks

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. — Sue Grafton

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff

I was recently downsized. That's the twenty-first-century way of saying I got canned. She — Stephen King

A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.
The Twenty-first Voyage — Stanislaw Lem

The first twenty years of my life were wasted ... I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other. — Rose Wilder Lane

But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century. — Mark Steyn

He sniffed his armpits just to see if they were rank, but they weren't. Let's hear it for twenty-first century deodorant. — Lisa Marie Rice

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. — Mark Twain

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. — Angela Merkel

A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage. — Honore De Balzac

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. — Noah Feldman

Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. — Robert D. Kaplan

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

The first twenty-four hours of a young man's life in London usually settled his eternity in heaven or hell. — George Williams

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF the twenty-first century. Some — Carmine Gallo

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years. — Thelma Houston

Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses. — Meg Jay

She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas. — Stuart Hill

Graham Greene once said that life was lived in the first twenty years and the remainder was just reflection. So — Paul Kalanithi

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler

I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you're going to end up in each other's arms. — Ashley Bell

The church of the Twenty-first Century will have the belt of dominion and will have the leading role in every area of society. — Sunday Adelaja

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962. — Owen Hatherley

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris

For every person who will say yes, there are twenty who will say no. For a positive response you must find the twenty-first person. — Chuck Reaves

A siren is the sound of the twenty-first-century cavalry on the way. — Rosamund Lupton

In the Twenty-first century we are going to confront a climate shock worse than any mankind has ever experienced. — Guillaume Faye

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century. — Oliver DeMille

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

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years. — Ingrid Bergman

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera

This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no! — Shannon Hale

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly. — David Sedaris

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile, — Greg Bear

Smokers are the lepers of the twenty-first century. — Jim Stevens

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

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law. — Tim Weiner

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got. — Manil Suri

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. — Andre Malraux

The dominant ethos of the twenty-first century consists of an intermingling of the sacred and the secular. — Harvey Cox

Harry Dresden - I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day. — Jim Butcher

It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party. — Julia Fierro

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. — Donald Hall

She couldn't be the first alien to crash-land on twenty-first-century Earth. — Patricia Eimer

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. — David Levien

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first. — Carl Yastrzemski

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

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. — Cynthia Heimel

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff