Top 100 Quotes About Eras
#1. We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids,
Gary Vaynerchuk
#2. Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
Mason Cooley
#3. I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.
Dwight Howard
#4. 2001 King of the Ring? I really like the sound of that! That REEKS OF ROYALTY! So begins the ERA OF AWESOMENESS!
Edge
#5. I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.
Dave McKean
#6. I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.
Vanessa Paradis
#7. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.
Fareed Zakaria
#8. Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.
Demetri Martin
#9. I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.
Beck
#10. It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras of fiction. Because then I can say, Well, I may not be talented, but at least I'm not DEAD.
Tad Williams
#11. To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.
Scott Bakula
#12. He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward.
Michelle M. Pillow
#13. I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.
Betty Friedan
#14. We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.
Otto Scharmer
#15. Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.
Jeremy Rifkin
#16. An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.
Alden Ehrenreich
#17. I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.
John Dykstra
#18. I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
Adrien Broner
#19. I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.
Patrick Grant
#20. I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.
Wesley Morris
#21. The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It's amazing.
Koji Nakanishi
#22. The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
DJ Spooky
#23. You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?
Mark Buehrle
#24. In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.
Henry Blodget
#25. Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#27. It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.
K.M. Soehnlein
#28. My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.
El-P
#29. It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original
for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ...
Irving Sandler
#31. It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent
Dennis Prager
#32. The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.
Slash
#33. Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.
Joseph Stalin
#34. He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.
Frances Hardinge
#35. My style is a mashup of different eras, but each piece I have makes me feel good about myself. I do have a taste for expensive shoes.
Wynter Gordon
#37. In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.
Matthew Hussey
#38. The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.
Bill Toomey
#39. In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.
Philip Treacy
#41. I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#42. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
Rachel Carson
#43. Because you know, we live in an era now where everything is pushed. We live in a push world where everything gets pushed to you. It's like, I don't have to wait for you to send it to me, I'll go get it off the Internet. So it was difficult to be back in that sort of situation. But it was cool.
Ja Rule
#44. The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.
Lyle Lovett
#45. In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
Kofi Annan
#46. The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.
Liam Fox
#47. Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.
Dick Morris
#49. An era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
Saul Bellow
#50. By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
Kelly Wearstler
#51. My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
Susan Barker
#52. I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.
George Lucas
#53. I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.
Dudley Randall
#54. Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.
Lauren Groff
#55. It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.
Thomas Rowe Price Jr.
#56. The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
Aslan Maskhadov
#57. You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can
Anne Rice
#58. Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.
Cheyenne Jackson
#59. The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era.
Frederick Lenz
#60. When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
Eric Betzig
#61. Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.
Fran Lebowitz
#62. The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.
Nicola Horlick
#63. Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.
Peleg Top
#64. Everybody has their own appreciation of the Beach Boys, depending on where they're coming from with their musical tastes, so we tried to be representative of all eras and of everybody in the band and their contributions.
Mike Love
#65. We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.
Rob Nilsson
#66. I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.
Bruno Grandi
#67. What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
Terence McKenna
#68. Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#69. Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.
George Papandreou
#70. Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.
Dave McPherson
#71. I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.
Sebastiao Salgado
#73. The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation.
Neale Donald Walsch
#74. The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#75. Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.
Paul Di Filippo
#76. My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to build the wardrobe around, like there were at Chloe, but I want there to be a feel of mix-and-match.
Phoebe Philo
#78. Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.
Randal Marlin
#79. When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
Bernadette Peters
#80. I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
Sachin Tendulkar
#81. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.
Karen Thompson Walker
#82. When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future
for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#83. And the cobwebs of time
would surrender,
dormant, so that the rainbows
of new eras can emerge
Despite the hollowness
of you.
Nema Al-Araby
#84. As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
Octavia E. Butler
#85. A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#86. We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Henri Rousseau
#87. Calculated globally, human society consumes the equivalent of 400 years' worth of ancient solar energy (expressed in terms of the net primary productivity of plants during previous geological eras) each year through our use of fossil fuels.
Mark Lynas
#88. When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
Clarence Day
#89. [On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.
Pat Nixon
#90. The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.
Terry Gross
#92. We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
Lynn Townsend White Jr.
#93. Welcome to a new era of marketing and service in which your brand is defined by those who experience it.
Brian Solis
#94. I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.
Sebastian Stan
#95. The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.
Nicholas Roerich
#96. With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.
Beck
#97. I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of it becomes about hearing the stories of those eras, and creating nostalgia from those stories.
Elle Fanning
#98. The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.
Elisa Kreisinger
#99. Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time.
Mark Strand
#100. I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.
Klaus Nomi
