20th century Quote by Russell Lynes Download Open image “Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.” — Russell Lynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Century
'Ragtime' is about how we get through ugliness, how we talk together, work together, get through it together. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s,… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the gay time,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for… — Russell Lynes Copy Share
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay… — David Cannadine Copy Share
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
