We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we…

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

— Miuccia Prada

Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it…

— Emma Goldman

God still draws near to us in the ordinary, commonplace, everyday experiences and places...He comes in surprising ways.

— Henry Gariepy

Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children…

— Fredric Wertham

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

— Raoul Vaneigem

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker

To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment…

— Norman Lamm

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the…

— Margaret Atwood

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

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,…

— John Ortberg

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil