The history of the outbreak of WAR 100 YEARS ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the summer of 1914 is a disturbing tale of the FAILURE of the governing elites and the military, but also of diplomacy.

Total OBLIVION is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my WORK will probably not be REMEMBERED, and if any of it is, if any of those NOVELS is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

It TOOK Hong Kong 100 YEARS to BECOME what it is.

There are CASES when it TAKES 50 or 100 years for FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE to ACHIEVE results.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the BLUES. We did not WANT to come off like white KIDS trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great WAY to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

I WANTED to be a WRITER that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same THING, I want to write books that change PEOPLE's lives, change how we think and LIVE and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.

I don't WANT to SEE KOBE Bryant ever leave. If he was 100 YEARS old and still playing, I'd be happy.

We've made so much progress in the last 100 years, and I think it's easy for us to think that women in the workplace, women in POLITICS, isn't that big of a deal. And when you step BACK and look at it from the SCOPE of HUMAN history, from thousands and thousands of years - it's a radical idea for a woman to be in CHARGE.

Can SPACE break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from LOOKING like Beaux Arts salons to SIMPLE storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant WHITE cubes of CHELSEA with their shiny concrete floors.

I think we're GOING to look back on the Internet in 50 to 100 YEARS as a big MISTAKE.

My GRANDMOTHER on my mother's side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had SEEN Buffalo Bill's Wild WEST Show as a little GIRL and had come to Texas by covered wagon.

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent EFFICIENCY, and 100 per cent life. I expect to LIVE to be 100 YEARS OLD.

The HISTORY of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years OLD. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I BELIEVE the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.

In the LAST 100 years only Presidents GEORGE H.W. Bush, JIMMY Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second TERM.

In my family, we don't DIE till we're 100 years OLD.