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Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep.
— Bill Bryson
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
— Mary Quant
All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.
— Tony Judt
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
— Carlos Fuentes
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
— Milan Kundera
I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
— Lewis Thomas
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
— Martin Scorsese
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .
— Eric Hobsbawm
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
— Jon Porter
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
— Diana Vreeland
The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.
— Richard Flanagan
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.
— Alex Spanos
Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.
— Phil Gramm
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
— Joan Collins
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
— Nina Simone
I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.
— Tucker Max
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
— Nils-Axel Morner
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
— David Hockney
G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.
— Dale Ahlquist
Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.
— Robert James Thomson
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
— Adam Hochschild
Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
— Carl Honore
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
— Robert Morgan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
— Marshall McLuhan
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
— Charlton Heston
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
— Terence McKenna
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.
— Daniel Kleppner
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
— Charles Bukowski
Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.
— Daryl Hall
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.
— Lester R. Brown
Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.
— Nick Harkaway
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
— Jeff Sharlet
Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
— Jack Kroll
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
— Howard Hodgkin
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince, a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.
— Aldous Huxley
From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two.
— Michael Dirda
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
— Wellington Webb
If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
— Ruth Bernhard
The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
— Jurgen Habermas
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
— John Updike
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
— Patricia McBride
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
— Lester B. Pearson
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
— Erich Fromm
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.
— Roselee Goldberg
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
— Amory Lovins
Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.
— Beeban Kidron
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— Anonymous
You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.
— Joe Hill
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
— Bertrand Piccard
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
— Christian Scott
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
— Terence McKenna
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
— FM-2030
Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.
— Vernon L. Smith
The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.
— Jennifer Senior
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
— Francis Parker Yockey
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.
— Henry R. Luce
I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century
— Charlton Heston
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
— Tom Wolfe
I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.
— Sebastian Arcelus
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
— James Wolcott
At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th century, it was fear, hate, and mistrust.
— Joel T. McGrath
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
— Avery Brundage
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
— Barbara Amiel
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
— Paul Goldberger
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.
— Jeff Sharlet
I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.
— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
— Constance Baker Motley
Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.
— A.E. Samaan
Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.
— Paul Gibbons
I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.
— David S. Rose
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
— George Meany
The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
— Britt Daniel
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
— Joschka Fischer
History of India From Ancient Times to the 20th Century by William W. Hunter
— William W. Hunter