20th Century Quotes - Page 20

• The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Sex, Female, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you study art history, you learn that there is very little that is completely new, and in many ways digital art is no different. I love to derive inspiration from all types of images: mosaics, hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, woven patterns in textiles, and needlework. There is a lot of very good "pixel" design work before the 20th century, like a 1760 sampler by Elizabeth Laidman that looks like a bitmap font.

  Susan Kare

  Art, Inspiration, Design

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.

  Dolly Parton

  Real, Writing, Ideas

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.

  Philip Pullman

  Clever, Book, Perfect

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• String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

  Edward Witten

  Physics, Century, Strings

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

  William J. Clinton

  America, Light, Rising

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.2353, Government Printing Office

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• When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Song, Writing, Century

  "Music, Influence, and "Deeply Unnecessary" Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• 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.

  Robert Morgan

  Long, People, Narrative

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• Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

  Jon Porter

  Home, Holocaust, Community

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Trying, Typical, World

  "Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich". Interview, March 1995.

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• In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

  Jon Porter

  Pregnancy, Community, Facts

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• By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

  Max Nordau

  Flying, Generations, Machines

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• If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

  Robert Altman

  Foxes, Kind, Film

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• Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Korea, Choices

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Unique

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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• I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

  George W. Bush

  War, Progress, Cold

  George W. Bush's commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2002.

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• This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Rose, Political

  "Income Inequality’s Ripple Effect". www.politico.com. December 09, 2013.

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• Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century

  Hildegard Peplau

  Nursing, Nurse, Progress

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• Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of a century, also told as if a day. Beginning with Julio's birth in 1900 and ending with his death in 2000, the graphic novel touches on most of the major events that shaped the 20th century.

  Brian Evenson

  Men, Events, Stories

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• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, African American, Racist

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• It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

  Clifford Geertz

  Looks, Done, Amusing

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• The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Century, Somalia, Results

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

  William J. Brennan

  Justice, Way, Constitution

  "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985

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