Quotes by Century This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. A. L. Rowse filthy century hate Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules. Aaron Zigman rachmaninoff century break The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century. Achim Steiner century humanity way An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head. Adam Ant century brain friendship It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries. Alain de Botton has-beens century taken It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. Alan Hovhaness century sympathy thinking The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. Albert Camus prophet century real The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. Albert Camus passion century real At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. Albert Camus happiness-and-love century people This is the century of fear. Albert Camus century fear The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. Albert Schweitzer my-brother century brother I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. Alberto Moravia layers century writing The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. Alberto Moravia proust novel century Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. Aldous Huxley black century victim Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. Alexandra Kerry stronger century fiction This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it. Alfred Bester freak century age The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. Alfred North Whitehead nineteenth-century invention century What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all. Allen W. Wood century humans may For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues. Allison Pearson virtue century men There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades and centuries. Andre Vltchek century west world 1234567891011»