20th Century Quotes

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

I chase goals, not girls.

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

The only reason I'd lift my skirt is to pull a pistol and plug you in the head.