Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
The Dead Pan; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
“The first icon of the 21st Century is the closed-circuit surveillance camera, slowly panning back and forth as we move beneath its gaze.”
How We Live Now (2005)
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Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
Rahul Gandhi: India is going to be 21st century Saudi Arabia, Rahul Gandhi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YOZOM0lROs
“Come with me on a journey beneath the skin
We will look together for the Pan within.”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
"The Pan Within"
This Is the Sea (1985)
“Falling from the pan
Into the fire beneath.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Canto XIII, stanza 30 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Human civilization as we know it will end, sometime in the 21st century.”
David Goodstein (1939) American physicist
Public lecture http://www.incubatepictures.com/notomorrow/making.shtml on peak oil and energy, November 2004.
Henry Liddon (1829–1890) British theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 384.
“I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: There's Treasure Everywhere
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
Systematic Theology (1951–63)
Context: A theological system is supposed to satisfy two basic needs: the statement of the truth of the Christian message and the interpretation of this truth for every new generation. Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundation and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received. Not many theological systems have been able to balance these two demands perfectly.
“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”
Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist
Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).
“When the star dies, its eye closes; tired of watching, it flies back to its first bright dream.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
“The Star and the Eye,” p. 46
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Grain”