“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ...… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have.… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
