Era Quotes

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.