The Magnificent Century Quotes

#1. Nearly a half century ago, while Social-Democratic and Communist theoreticians babbled about a society with "work for all," the Dadaists, those magnificent madmen, demanded unemployment for everybody.

Murray Bookchin

#2. Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.

Joan Miro

#3. It was just a magnificent, India-ink night of moonlit clouds below and glimpses of the shimmering sea. What century are you in? he longed to ask her.

Suzanne Stroh

#4. On August 19, 1418, a competition was announced in Florence, where the city's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, had been under construction for more than a century

Ross King

#5. That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result)

Charles Bukowski

#6. We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

William J. Clinton

#7. The last centuries saw the most magnificent material progress in history, and the present century is set to produce the greatest progress in mental and spiritual power.

Charles F. Haanel