I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my…

“Yet I was wound up. I tick. I exist. I am poised eighteen inches over the black rivets you are reading, I am in…

— William Golding

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

— Eleanor Catton

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…

— Elie Wiesel

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple…

— Lech Walesa

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

— Stephen Ambrose

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

— Alex Spanos

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st…

— Óscar Arias

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet