Top 100 Quotes About Eras
#1. Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
Mason Cooley
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.
Jeremy Rifkin
#7. 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
#8. Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#10. He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.
Frances Hardinge
#11. 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
#12. The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.
Bill Toomey
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.
Lauren Groff
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.
George Papandreou
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
Sachin Tendulkar
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
Clarence Day
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
#38. Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light.
Joseph J. Ellis
#39. Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
Nicola Griffith
#40. The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
Zoe Kravitz
#41. Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.
Marco Rubio
#42. I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.
Gemma Arterton
#43. Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#44. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Ray Dalio
#45. In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn't complacent, it's stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That's not wimpy - it's powerful and productive.
Michael Azerrad
#46. A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#47. Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.
Jerry Pournelle
#48. One of my favorite eras is the '80s. I'm an '80s baby to the world, love everything about the '80s.
Deon Cole
#49. It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Nelson Rockefeller
#50. An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
G. Willow Wilson
#51. Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
Barry Ritholtz
#52. Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.
Ayn Rand
#53. Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
J.R. Moehringer
#54. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.
K'naan
#55. We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...
Arthur C. Clarke
#56. Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.
William Gibson
#57. Germany's highest commander succumbed to a disease common among senior soldiers of many nationalities and eras: he wished to demonstrate to his government and people that their vastly expensive armed forces could fulfil their fantasies.
Max Hastings
#58. This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
Joe Lieberman
#59. To believe whatever is said without investigating the truth behind them is the ultimate stupidity of all the majority in all the eras!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.
Stephen Moyer
#61. I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic
Iris Apfel
#62. While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
George Hamilton
#63. I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.
Rick Riordan
#65. Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?
Marie Winn
#68. We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.
Mikey Way
#69. I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.
Misty Copeland
#70. The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.
Olivia Palermo
#71. Superman has been around for so long; he's been around for, what, eight decades now? And he goes through these different eras where different aspects of who he is get emphasized.
Gene Luen Yang
#72. I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
Laz Alonso
#73. There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
Beck
#74. There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don't take those risks anymore. We've designed the systems to eliminate risk, which makes it take forever and cost too much money.
Gwynne Shotwell
#75. Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
Sunil Gavaskar
#76. All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Richard Le Gallienne
#77. Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Sam Walter Foss
#78. Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.
Ellen Glasgow
#79. There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
George Eliot
#80. Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.
Jane Smiley
#81. F you could forget mortality ... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.
Wallace Stegner
#82. [as a writer] you take up a life in your imagination, in which you can live all the other parts of yourself that you didn't become. And you can live in all the eras; the fact that you happened to be born in a certain place, in a certain dictate - the imagination doesn't accept these limitations.
Hilary Mantel
#83. There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.
Geoffrey Rush
#84. Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets,
Walt Whitman
#85. Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this life, but whom I've met inwardly, teachers from other eras - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse.
Frederick Lenz
#86. Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.
Hal Hartley
#87. I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.
Dick Latvala
#88. Rain flung his head skyward and loosed a mighty roar of primal triumph.
Death to those who endangered the Fey!
Death to those who injured his friends, his brothers!
He was Rainier-Eras, Feyreisen, and he was winged vengeance.
C.L. Wilson
#89. We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids,
Gary Vaynerchuk
#90. I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.
Dwight Howard
#91. 2001 King of the Ring? I really like the sound of that! That REEKS OF ROYALTY! So begins the ERA OF AWESOMENESS!
Edge
#92. 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
#93. I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.
Vanessa Paradis
#94. Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.
Demetri Martin
#95. I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.
Beck
#96. 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
#97. We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.
Otto Scharmer
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
Adrien Broner
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