Best 20th Century Quotes

287 20th Century quotes by 251 unique authors

The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually. — Jay Leno
Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to… — Harry Shearer
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was… — Gene Tierney
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. — Joe Pantoliano
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop… — Jeff Healey
I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an… — Thomas Keller
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of… — Unknown Author
I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take… — Lou Reed
That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the… — George W. Bush
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,… — Robert Smithson
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be… — Michael Bloomberg
It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th… — John McCain
The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape… — J. G. Ballard
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of… — George W. Bush
No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on… — William J. Clinton
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way. — George W. Bush
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression,… — Assata Shakur
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and… — Jimmy Page
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great… — Noam Chomsky
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism — Constance Baker Motley
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an… — Clifford Geertz
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines… — Michel Chossudovsky
The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than… — Tony Buzan
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. — William J. Brennan
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we… — Allyson Schwartz

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