Best century & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

Firsts Character Use Would Be Wanted America Speak Language Felt Century Comic Ties Frank 20th Century Idiom

Author:Jim Woodring

“I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'”

Littles Character America Guy Century Towns Oil Driving Hills Texas Foxes 20th Century Port Saddest Arthur Beverly Hills Refinery

Author:G.W. Bailey

“Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.”

World Art Character Lasts Literature Century Tradition Determined Decades Revolt Nineteenth Century

Book:On art and architecture

Source: On art and architecture

“Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or a falling away from the true character of Christ's teachings in the centuries which followed the Apostolic age.”

Men Believe Made Character Age Purpose Fall Christ Church Practice Teaching Century Fundamentals Doctrine Pristine True Character Apostolic Apostasy

Author:Lowell L. Bennion

“But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the nineteenth century, another characteristic which may be traced to the writer's sex. In Middlemarch and in Jane Eyre we are conscious not merely of the writer's character, as we are conscious of the character of Charles Dickens, but we are conscious of a woman's presence of someone resenting the treatment of her sex and pleading for its rights.”

May Character Sex Novel Rights Century Conscious Range Characteristics Treatment Affected Jane Nineteenth Century Dickens Pleading Middlemarch

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more articulately than some critics think, but before the 20th century it really didn't occur to many writers that their language had to be the language of everyday speech. When Wordsworth first considered that in poetry, it was considered very much of a shocker. And although I'm delighted to have things in ordinary speech, it's not what I'm trying to perform myself at all: I want my characters to get their ideas across, and I want them to be articulate.”

People Thinking Want Writing Trying Firsts Mean Ideas Character Care Speak Language Century Speech Ordinary Critics Everyday 20th Century Delighted Wordsworth

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?”

“When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.”

Firsts Country Character Wanted Political Used Force Powerful Written Century Policy Majors Tools Scripts Officials Brutal Uniforms Emperor Banned Written Word

Author:Ha Jin

“These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.”

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.”

Men May Has Beens Character Age Given Opinion Century Degrees Men And Women Expected Educated Manners Streams Popular Opinion Vindication

Book:Vindication of the Rights of Women

Source: Vindication of the Rights of Women

“Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.”

Character Moral Century Tests Illness Nineteenth Century Reluctance Moral Character

Book:Illness as metaphor

Source: Illness as metaphor

“Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.”

People Character Century Food Remains Cooking Culinary Things Change

Author:Victor Hugo

“My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.”

Character Age Voice Views Fiction Novel Century Equal Importance Golden Narrative Excellent 19th Century Golden Age

Author:Joanna Trollope

“There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.”

Hard Whole Character Literature Century Expectations Minors 19th Century Orphan Shortage Parental Great Expectations Widows And Orphans Minor Characters

Author:David Nicholls

“Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.”

“[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.”

“Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!”

Character Action Asks Four Mystery Sea Land Century Adventure Summer Raises Hunters Pirate Colorful Land And Sea Great Summer

Author:Michael Connelly

“Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.”

“Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke.”

Way Kind Done Character Life Is Girl Felt Waiting Clear Century Findings Evidence Absolutes Significant Versions 21st Century Amusing Removal Proactive Passivity Blokes

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I

“I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.”

Character Century Female Program Males 21st Century Female Characters

Author:Geena Davis

“I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century.”

Littles Character Kids Felt Fans Century 21st Century Stamps Little Kid Great Respect

Author:Charles Roven

“The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into that realization, and it's a lot closer to him than he would ever have wanted to know. It's a metaphor for when you get in a fight with your significant other and you go, "Who is this?," or you look in the mirror and go, "Why did I say that?" It's the intruder. When you threw a temper tantrum at two years old, it's them.”

“I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.”

Character Stories Novel Fans Effects Century Majors Driven Passages Minors 19th Century Passage Of Time Minor Characters

Author:John Irving

“There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian descent, but they called him the "Mad Potter of Biloxi." I'd love to do a great character study and comedy about that guy's life. That would be my dream role. I know it's an oddball thing, but it's true. He lived at the turn of the century, in the 1800s.”

Knows Character Dream Would Be Guy Turns Names Roles Study Comedy Century Mad Potters That Guy Mississippi Descent Great Character Oddballs

Author:Lance Henriksen

“I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Kind Different Character Able Attitude Century Behavior Notion Superficial 20th Century Prompts

Author:James Vance

“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.”

Thinking Mean Made Ideas Character Stories Given Wealth Quality Magic Century Perception Economics Argument Nonsense Massive Goods Thinker Trading 19th Century Marxist Inscriptions Seminars

Author:Marina Warner

“Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.”

Littles Character Kids Roles Century Female Males 21st Century Little Kid Stunning Female Characters

Author:Geena Davis

“Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.”

Character Girl Challenges Century Danger Judging Standards Looking Back 21st Century Being A Girl

Author:Zoe Kazan

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