Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. — Rush Limbaugh
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. — Norman Mailer
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. — Benito Mussolini
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact,… — Dennis Prager
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London… — Carroll Quigley
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon… — Jerry Saltz
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making… — Jerry Saltz
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote,… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to… — Hunter S. Thompson
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth… — Martin Filler
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we… — Donna J. Haraway
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions… — Tom Robbins
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth… — Jane Austen
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its… — Wendell Berry
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban… — Grant Morrison
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to… — Dean Koontz
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and… — Nick Hornby

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