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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
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
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
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
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
— John Lahr
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
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
— Jill Lepore
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
The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.
— Robert Hass
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
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children's literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
'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
It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.
— Clifford Odets
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
Oh God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!' Thanks to our labours, this will mean increasingly, 'Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite'.
— C.S. Lewis
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
Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.
— Alec-Tweedie
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.
— Stephen King
The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.
— Douglas Preston
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
— Angela Carter
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
— Robert Motherwell
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
— Saki
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
— Marcel Proust
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
— Will Self
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
— Thomas Szasz
The twentieth-century scholar G. B. Harrison, believing the woman to have been black-skinned, proposed a prostitute named Lucy Morgan;
— Paul Edmondson
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds.
— John Kennedy Toole
I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
— Penelope Wilton
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
— Caryl Rivers
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
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
— James Howard Kunstler
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
— Jerome Kern
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
— Michael Palin
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
— Thomas Sowell
The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.
— Saul Bellow
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
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
— Simone Weil
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
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
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.
— Tim Wu