(347 quotes found)
“Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?”
Mark Twain
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”
Dame Edna Everage
“[(CNN) -- The cardinal rule of criminal detection was carved in stone more than a century ago.] It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence, ... It biases the judgment.”
Sherlock Holmes
“It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.”
Warren E. Burger
“The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development”
Joseph Conrad
“As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.”
William Howard Taft
“And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.”
Dave Barry
“I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.”
Martin Sheen
“[Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century, Mockingbird won three Oscars , including one for star Gregory Peck, who died in 2003. And it was Peters who read the eulogy at Peck's funeral.] In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love, ... Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure.”
Brock Peters
“I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.”
Doctor Who
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