270 Quotes About Century

I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

We have some marvelous archives. We have a very very good nineteenth century collection of books.

It encompasses practically every form and every style and every technique starting from the 13th century all the way down to the 18th.

Our goal is to preserve the past using 21st century technology.

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

But I am encouraged that the Government has finally released a discussion paper for the industry to respond to. This Government is one of the most reforming governments in history but the media industry is one of the last industries to face up to the 21st century technology now available.