I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has…

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

— Stephen King

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

— Gore Vidal

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

— Robert Henri

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings,…

— Bob Dylan

When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I…

— Luc Tuymans

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

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