“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We… — john darnton Copy Share Image
I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.” — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies.… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre… — Jeffrey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother was in one of the first girl bands, in the 1920s. Their outfits were mental: velvet bloomers with big ribbons… — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The picnic table in the photo was an old door set up on sawhorses, and the seats were old tree stumps, or… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
From the 1920s through to the 1970s, bridal was related to the fashion of the times. Then in the 1980s, it became… — Jenny Packham Copy Share Image
The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
“Momma was with the pony last night. Lily and me have him in the mornings, and we give him a wash with… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
