Twentieth Quotes

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama. - Ralph A. Cram

With Herbert Berghof's direction, I fell in love with the play. I do believe it's the greatest play of the twentieth century! I've done four different productions. The most recent was a regional production, in which Gogo was a Jew; Lucky, an American Indian; Pozzo, a WASP.... - Earle Hyman

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. - Greg Egan

We're having productive conversations with Twentieth, but we're a step shy of closing a deal. - Robert Greenblatt

Well I failed to bring Roger to Flint. As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era. - Michael Moore

We have lost a giant of comedy. Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of greats who shaped British comedy in the twentieth century. - Mark Thompson

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself. - E. J. Hobsbawm

Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, / I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. - Bible

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. - John Stuart Mill