Tamagotchis 20th Quotes

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century ~ Charlton Heston

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone. ~ Jack Kroll

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. ~ Sara Sheridan

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century. ~ George W. Bush

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. ~ Paul McCartney

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century. ~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else. ~ Dale Ahlquist

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. ~ David S. Rose

Television is the medium of the 20th century. ~ Hugh Downs

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows. ~ Rob Reiner

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

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers. ~ Linda Simon

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century. ~ Ricky Jay

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. ~ Ross McKitrick

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened. ~ Joan Collins

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. ~ Terence McKenna

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. ~ Joe Pantoliano

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century. ~ Vernon L. Smith

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century ~ Winston Churchill

Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. ~ Jurgen Habermas

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way. ~ George W. Bush

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

D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail? ~ Stephen Ambrose

Taurus (April 20th-May 20th) This sign is ruled by Venus, making you value the sensual side of life. When you feel the pull of attraction you can't help but give in. Just be sure that your conquest is worthy of your passionate, possessive love. ~ Livia Lang

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster. ~ Geri Halliwell

Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all. ~ DJ Spooky

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. ~ Allyson Schwartz

Bringing Israel and modern Zionism into the subject of the Holocaust is to bring current (i.e. late 20th and early 21st Century) issues into a historical event that occurred on another continent altogether in the early-mid 20th Century. ~ James Morcan

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. ~ Gregory Maguire

I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them. ~ Christine Jennings

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century. ~ John McCain

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him. ~ Al Franken

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century. ~ Judith Curry

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. ~ Marshall McLuhan

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience. ~ Penn Jillette

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ~ William J. Brennan Jr.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did. ~ Douglas Coupland

But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century! ~ David Bronstein

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. ~ Avery Brundage

By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy. ~ Thomas Sowell

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

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. ~ John Shelton Reed

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. ~ Jeff Sharlet

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. ~ Sydney Pollack

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history ~ Margaret Beckett

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics ~ Phil Harding

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

It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast. ~ Brian Sutton-Smith

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals. ~ N. T. Wright

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

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ~ Tom Wolfe

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

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century. ~ Edgar Mitchell

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables. ~ Lester R. Brown

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century ... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world. ~ Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel

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

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible. ~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

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

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time. ~ Joe Bradley

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century. ~ Elie Wiesel

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. ~ Sylvia Earle

Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear. ~ Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West. ~ John Keegan

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. ~ Stephen Ambrose

It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide. ~ Barack Obama

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men. ~ David Blankenhorn

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek. ~ Tony Judt

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something. ~ Colin Meloy

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ~ J.G. Ballard

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. ~ Edward Witten

Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century. ~ Arvid Carlsson

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century. ~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. ~ Walter Murch

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century. ~ Warren Farrell

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. ~ Gavin Bryars

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two. ~ Robert Fogel

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to. ~ Thomas Frank

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century. ~ Lawrence Summers

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity. ~ Peter Drucker

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~ William Lyon Phelps

One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right. ~ William A. Rusher

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves. ~ Tadao Ando

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

Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older. ~ Alex James

History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27. ~ Richard D. Zanuck

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week. ~ Michael Beschloss

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu. ~ David L. Katz

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding. ~ Kenneth R. Miller

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality ... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them. ~ Christopher Alexander

Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses. ~ Paul Engle

Nietzche ... he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize. ~ James Vance

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic. ~ Bill Viola

The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation. ~ Tom Brokaw

I think there's a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm. ~ Khoi Vinh

I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating. ~ Judy Woodruff