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