Quotes of: Twentieth-century Keyword

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Peter Diamandis

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.

Pico Iyer

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our names were made for us in another century.

Richard Brautigan

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Steven Rattner

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Ken Follett

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Mikhail Gorbachev

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Calvin Trillin

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Gertrude Stein

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

Kevin Rudd

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Milos Forman

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

Ben Shapiro

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

Elon Musk

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Janet Echelman

The present state of the world is normal; it with the last (19th) century that with the abnormality.

C.S. Lewis

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.

Eric Holder

Evey Hammond: What is that? Gordon Deitrich: It's a copy of the Quran, 14th century.

V for Vendetta

Ash: Say hello to the twenty-first century!

Army of Darkness

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

Twyla Tharp