For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. — Daniel Kleppner Copy Share Image
I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I loved being at the studio (20th Century-Fox). After all, I started at 15, and I grew up there. But there comes… — Jeanne Crain Copy Share Image
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image