I've always been into the music of the 1920s and 1930s.

In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous…

— Richard Dawkins

Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s,…

— Jennifer Lee

“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre and Montparnasse,…

— Jeffrey H. Jackson

In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s…

— Stephen Hough

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have…

— Lauren Bacall

“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our…

— john darnton

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period.…

— Tony Bennett

“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

“Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned…

— Dita Von Teese

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the…

— Malcolm Cowley

“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald