“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.” PeopleKnowsWritingFirstsStoriesHandsSituationCenturyOriginalsFamiliarNineteenth Century Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“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.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.” KnowsCenturyStructureChemicalsAtomsSolar System Author:Johannes Stark
“You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.” KnowsI CanCountryMomentsPastFourCenturyEthicsPuritan Author:James Young
“Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.” KnowsLongProcessCreativeCenturyHugeObviousBurdenCreative ProcessProtectedInabilityCopyright Book:Free Culture Source: Free Culture
“It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.” KnowsBigsRunningYoungEasyCenturyRaisedShoesTransitionFoxes20th CenturyEyebrowsBig Shoes Author:Richard D. Zanuck