“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.” Has BeensActionHalfCenturyEventsBrilliantErasSpeakersEchoesTwentieth CenturyBarbarism Book:The Passionate State of Mind Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.” YearsArtStillsImportantMatterStrongCenturyRiversIntelligentHistoricalBrilliant20th CenturyAbstractionAmusingModernismMinimalismCreeksFigurative Art Author:Mark Kostabi
“Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.” MenWorldHas BeensStatesValuesChurchCenturyProfoundBrilliantOur TimeJewelsOutlookGuardedCelibacy Author:Pope Paul VI
“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.” WayPastOrderPassionGoalRiskShareEconomicCenturyCreationReaderProudSkillsMembersEconomicsTraditionFunctionInstitutionsFinancialPhilosopherBrilliantAppealsAnalysisOur SocietyCompellingWorldlyImaginativeFinancial InstitutionsUnknown Future Author:Peter L. Bernstein
“Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.” LongStillsTwoDreamTodayNationsHistoryCenturyBirthExcitedBrilliantUrgesQuestsFoundersMilestone Book:Jimmy Carter Source: Jimmy Carter
“I don't think a day has gone past in 10 years where someone hasn't said, 'What did you do with those guns from Lock, Stock?' And there's pretty much not a week that's gone by where someone hasn't got me to say, 'It's a deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the f**king century.' Apart from that I get, 'You were brilliant in Notting Hill,' because I look vaguely like Rhys Ifans.” ThinkingYearsLooksSaidPastDealsGoneWeekCenturyKingsGunBrilliantStealingHillsLocksNotting HillLock Stock Author:Jason Flemyng
“Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.” SometimesMatterCareDoubtCenturyBrilliantFeaturesNo DoubtOriginality20th CenturyNaiveSpontaneityRomanticismHallmark Author:Paul Fry