Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was…

We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every atom in your body was once inside a star…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by…

— Bill Bryson

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

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

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