Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really…

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

— Péter Esterházy

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

— Bing Crosby

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

— Salman Rushdie

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

— Werner Herzog

One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.

— Jack the Ripper

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it…

— James Gleick

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one…

— Anzia Yezierska

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

— Robert H. Schuller

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of…

— Rick Perlstein

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will…

— Freeman Dyson

Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures”

— Leo Tolstoy