Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful… — Cyril Connolly
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn… — Neil Postman
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,… — Susan Sontag
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the… — Martin Amis
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the… — John Lahr
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of… — Stephen Bayley
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides… — Carl Bernstein
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be… — Michael Behe
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just… — Karen Armstrong
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail… — Mary Ann Glendon
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the… — Juan Goytisolo
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has… — Edgar Mitchell
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have here… — Paul Levinson
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda,… — David Levering Lewis
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices… — Charles Petzold
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought… — Robert A. Heinlein
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,… — Hayden Carruth
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in… — Arnold J. Toynbee

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