Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. — Julie Andrews 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
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. — Lionel Hampton Copy Share Image
“She sighs, breathing smoke through her lips. "Might as well dance.” — Genevieve Valentine Copy Share Image
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety:… — Edmund Wilson 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
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 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
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the… — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.' — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman's best bet when… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
“The war was undoubtedly the most profound and inescapable influence on writers in the 1920s. But it was far from the only… — Paul Brody Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in… — Naomi Wolf 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
“(…) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to… — Joshua Zeitz 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
“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
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies,… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
“After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.” — Margarita Barresi 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
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
“She murmured, “I love the imagery of Sappho, the warm summer air across the velvety darkness, the lover between love’s thighs.” She… — Paul A. Myers Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a… — Ron Chernow 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
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
