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QUINN STILLETTO Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI![]()
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has t...
QUENTIN CRISP She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING![]()
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in ...
RUSSELL BAKER![]()
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue...
THOMAS SOWELL![]()
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. '...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN![]()
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutio...
DREW GILPIN FAUST![]()
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINI Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN![]()
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have ma...
BING CROSBY![]()
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per...
E. L. DOCTOROW![]()
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEIN![]()
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ...
ERIC HOFFER Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a y...
NAZIM HIKMET![]()
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON![]()
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is ...
ERICH FROMM A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki...
A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY![]()
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per...
E. L. DOCTOROW![]()
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sourc...
EAVAN BOLAND All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON![]()
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY![]()
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES![]()
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live ...
GREG GRAFFIN![]()
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
WERNER HERZOG Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe.
INTERNET MEME PROVERB![]()
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU![]()
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two s...
JOSEPH BRODSKY If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS![]()
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary ass...
J.G. BALLARD![]()
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's...
DON DELILLO![]()
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi...
FREEMAN DYSON![]()
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addi...
ABERJHANI![]()
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS![]()
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
ALEXIS KORNER In the twentieth century, Kansas City produced two uniquely American geniuses who would both forever...
TANNER COLBY![]()
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and...
GERTRUDE STEIN![]()
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD ...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine...
WILLIAM H. GASS The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists an...
WILLIAM MACDONALD![]()
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE![]()
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE With Herbert Berghof's direction, I fell in love with the play. I do believe it's the greatest play ...
EARLE HYMAN![]()
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH![]()
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West...
JOHN LAHR![]()
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS The Allied governments, for example, with the British as executors, maintained in place the food blo...
RUSSEL H.S. STOLFI![]()
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ...
ANGELA CARTER![]()
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN![]()
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN![]()
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD![]()
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD![]()
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
NORMAN MAILER![]()
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety
NORMAN MAILER Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'informa...
IAN ANGELL One day men will look back and say i gave birth to the twentieth century.
JACK THE RIPPER Designed in 1959, the copper-clad dome is a great example of the more adventurous architectural feat...
IAN CAMPBELL![]()
On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and rem...
DANIEL BARENBOIM![]()
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL![]()
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...
PETER SLOTERDIJK![]()
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews o...
DAVID NOVAK Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost h...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN![]()
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admi...
BLAISE PASCAL A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!
ABHISHEK RATNA![]()
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA![]()
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB![]()
We must act now to prevent further spread of EBOLA VIRUS. If we do not act collectively, EBOLA VIRUS...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA![]()
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON![]()
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER![]()
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not s...
MICHAEL ARLEN Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
HEARD IN ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING: defined in such a way that WE ALL AGREE upon it's shared relevance and WHY WE WI...
HOMELESS IN FAIRFAX I relieve and release your hurt that you may be set free.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, wher...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND People who suffer from migraine with aura can sometimes experience a phenomenon called the
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I don't care much where ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND We're all mad here.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad? Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll te...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Alice falls down the rabbit hole and her dress poofs up like a parachute] Alice: Well, after this I ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
QUINN STILLETTO Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has t... QUENTIN CRISP She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in ... RUSSELL BAKER
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue... THOMAS SOWELL
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. '... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutio... DREW GILPIN FAUST
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. BENITO MUSSOLINI Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have ma... BING CROSBY
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per... E. L. DOCTOROW
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. GERTRUDE STEIN
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ... ERIC HOFFER Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a y...
NAZIM HIKMET
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is ... ERICH FROMM A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki...
A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per... E. L. DOCTOROW
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sourc... EAVAN BOLAND All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live ... GREG GRAFFIN
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. WERNER HERZOG Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe.
INTERNET MEME PROVERB
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two s... JOSEPH BRODSKY If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary ass... J.G. BALLARD
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's... DON DELILLO
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t... DON DELILLO It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS...
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addi... ABERJHANI
There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the ... MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
ALEXIS KORNER In the twentieth century, Kansas City produced two uniquely American geniuses who would both forever...
TANNER COLBY
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and... GERTRUDE STEIN
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD ...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine...
WILLIAM H. GASS The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists an...
WILLIAM MACDONALD
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is ... MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C... EDMUND WHITE With Herbert Berghof's direction, I fell in love with the play. I do believe it's the greatest play ...
EARLE HYMAN
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West... JOHN LAHR
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ALBERT CAMUS The Allied governments, for example, with the British as executors, maintained in place the food blo...
RUSSEL H.S. STOLFI
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ... ANGELA CARTER
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time. MARGARET MEAD
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. MARGARET MEAD
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. NORMAN MAILER
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety NORMAN MAILER Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'informa...
IAN ANGELL One day men will look back and say i gave birth to the twentieth century.
JACK THE RIPPER Designed in 1959, the copper-clad dome is a great example of the more adventurous architectural feat...
IAN CAMPBELL
On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and rem... DANIEL BARENBOIM
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t... DON DELILLO It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...
PETER SLOTERDIJK
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews o... DAVID NOVAK Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost h...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admi... BLAISE PASCAL A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!
ABHISHEK RATNA
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. MARSHALL MCLUHAN It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB
We must act now to prevent further spread of EBOLA VIRUS. If we do not act collectively, EBOLA VIRUS... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not s...
MICHAEL ARLEN Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
HEARD IN ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING: defined in such a way that WE ALL AGREE upon it's shared relevance and WHY WE WI...
HOMELESS IN FAIRFAX I relieve and release your hurt that you may be set free.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, wher...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND People who suffer from migraine with aura can sometimes experience a phenomenon called the
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I don't care much where ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND We're all mad here.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad? Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll te...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Alice falls down the rabbit hole and her dress poofs up like a parachute] Alice: Well, after this I ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. 
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo... 
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#... 
One person's car is another person's scenery. 
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ... 
When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers... 
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I... 
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U... 
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi... 
Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken. 
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real... 
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the... 
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa... 
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about... 
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther... 
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... 
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... 
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... 
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... 
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... 
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he... 
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. 
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ... 
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n... 
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re... 
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. 
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. 
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t... 
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte... 
There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r... 
Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr... 
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. 
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. 
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. 