Era Quotes

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
Shakira

Love, History, Creativity

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.
Tim McGraw

Work, Best, Last

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
Mary Lou Retton

Success, Won, Financial

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
Hugh Sidey

Words, Risk, Ideas

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
Baz Luhrmann

Peace, Great, War

I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
Daley Thompson

Winning, Country, Rest

I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
Larry Holmes

Today, Fighting, Punches

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
Gavin Newsom

Focus, Public, Security

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
Matt Drudge

Small, Citizen, Voices

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.
Jon Hamm

Guys, Teenagers, Teenager

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
Douglas Sirk

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
Richard M. Daley

Life, Dad, Father

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
Tanya Tucker

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
Oscar de la Renta

Women, History, Live

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
Brent Scowcroft

Trying, Country, Mindset

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
Pierre Salinger

Children, Youth, Since

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
Rafael Palmeiro

Great, Best, History

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
Jeffrey Sachs

Money, Great, Democracy

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
Jon Voight

Peace, Through, Movement

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain

Leadership, Help, Job

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
Ivan Lendl

Game, Fair, Players

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.
John Fogerty

Great, Incredible, Necks

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.
Tucker Carlson

Won, Satan, Among

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
Albert Bushnell Hart

Government, Trade, Colonies

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
Nicholson Baker

Music, Time, Poetry

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.
Polykarp Kusch

Life, Science, Able

Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.
David Cone

Behind, Defined, Johnson

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
Andy Summers

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
Gary Lineker

Best, Happy, Successful

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
Rudy Giuliani

Change, Fear, Long

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