Twentieth Quotes
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These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.
— Elizabeth Kostova
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
— Salman Rushdie
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The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as the century of superficiality.
— Billy Graham
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Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
— Christopher Hitchens
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
— Nigel Melville
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
— Louis Dudek
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
— L.M. Montgomery
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.
— Frank Miller
If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes.
— Dave Barry
In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.
— Dennis Miller
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
— Pat Conroy
It must be hard to pass your twentieth birthday alone.
— Haruki Murakami
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
— Miguel De Unamuno
This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
— A. L. Rowse
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
— Pankaj Mishra
There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
— Scott Ellis
We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.
— Steve Toltz
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.
— Stephen Hawking
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
— Thornton Wilder
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
— Dalai Lama
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
— James Fenton
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
— George Carlin
Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century
— Rick Bragg
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
— Brigid Brophy
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.
— Alec-Tweedie
In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in Americaand nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. — Robert A. Heinlein
The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.
— Douglas Preston
No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.
— Timothy Snyder
The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century,
— Douglas Adams
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.
— Faye Moskowitz
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
— Anzia Yezierska
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
— Marcel Proust
The twentieth-century scholar G. B. Harrison, believing the woman to have been black-skinned, proposed a prostitute named Lucy Morgan;
— Paul Edmondson
a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds.
— John Kennedy Toole
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
— Thomas Szasz
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
— Caryl Rivers
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
By the late twentieth century, Jefferson's windfall would be feeding much of the world.
— Edward E. Baptist
Self-Help Books of the Twentieth Century: Exploiting Hope and Fear," and
— Margaret Atwood
Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
— James Howard Kunstler
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
— Michael Palin
I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
— Penelope Wilton
Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family.
— Alan Moore
Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth
— Charles Dickens
The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.
— Susan Wise Bauer
The twentieth will be a short century," he said. "Either we or the Soviets will launch the missiles before long, and all the lies will be burned away.
— David Burr Gerrard
With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.
— Stacy Schiff
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
— Andrew Carnegie
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
— Erich Fromm
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
— Wilfrid Laurier
it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first.
— David S. Rose
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
— Harold E. Varmus
She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
— Jonathan Lethem
The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures
— Leo Tolstoy
He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.
— Jeff Shaara
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
— Arthur Compton
The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.
— Norman Mailer
The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.
— Joseph Sobran
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
— Neil Armstrong
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
— Noam Chomsky
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
— Manolo Blahnik
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
— Marshall McLuhan
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
— Margaret Mead
Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century
— Tom Acitelli
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
— Charles W. Pickering
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
— David Mitchell
Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
— William H Gass
Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said.
— Kate Grenville
Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
— Whitaker Chambers
