The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.” — Charles N. Brown Copy Share Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“throbbed into silence… “And that’s the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression,… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. — Jack the Ripper Copy Share Image
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak Copy Share Image
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
“Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing?” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
