Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
“But the media were about to go cold turkey on the whole latter half of the twentieth century, and the shock was… — Sarah Graves Copy Share Image
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary,… — David Fisher Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
