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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
View quotes by Angela Carter
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
View quotes by Isaac Singer
Widespread use of caffeine explains a lot about the twentieth century!
View quotes by Greg Egan
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
View quotes by Margaret Mead
The twentieth century brought us the bomb, and the nuclear threat will never leave us.
View quotes by Sir Martin Rees
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together.
View quotes by Stephen Bayley
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
View quotes by Norman Mailer
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
View quotes by Nigel Melville
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
View quotes by Thomas Szasz
Motion pictures are the art form of the twentieth century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform.
View quotes by Roger Corman
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
View quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson
The century on which we are entering - the century which will come out of this war - can be and must be the century of the common man. (Speech, 8 May 1942)
View quotes by Henry Wallace
Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping the judgment would not be too heavy upon him. - White Teeth
View quotes by Zadie Smith
The scientists say that it's going to be five to ten degrees warmer by the end of this century, the 21st century, than it is today.
View quotes by Peter Barnes
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
View quotes by Theodor Geisel
The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late. (Character of the late Dr S. Annesley)
View quotes by Daniel Defoe
I normally sleep late and wake up late
View quotes by Andrew Murray
He was idolized from his twentieth year on. [on Bobby Charlton]
View quotes by Matt Busby
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