1926 Quotes

#1. Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. (1926)

Arthur E. Kennelly

#2. I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

Robert Fogel

#3. When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.

John O'Hara

#4. The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Susan Stewart

#5. I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil

Evelyn Waugh

#6. In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

Dave Barry

#7. Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

John Szarkowski

#8. The city I inhabit now is not the city that I moved to in 1926; it has become a mean-spirited action movie complete with repulsive plot twists and preposterous dialogue.

Kathleen Rooney

#9. in the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, a smash, a thunk, a thump, and a thud. Of

Amor Towles

#10. I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

Hamish Bowles

#11. Papier-mache canals flowed in downtown Lowell, men smoking cigars stand by the rail spitting in the waters that reflect the drizzle hopelessness of 1926.

Jack Kerouac

#12. Ruth Ellis would have been 90 on 9th October. And still the lies are being broadcast about her!
Ruth Ellis 1926 - 1955

Monica Weller

#13. I'd never been in love, because I was waiting for the silent-movie love: big eyes and violins, chattering without sound, pure. Nobody had loved right since 1926.

Rich Horton

#14. The Stage Office" on Mount Washington housed the first year-round weather observatory in the 1870s. It was used again when observers re-occupied the summit in 1933. Max Engelhart was serving snacks here when a storm overtook him in October 1926.

Nicholas S. Howe

#15. How can I possibly stop loving you when it's sort of predestined? - Malcom Lowry to Carol Brown, 1926 (age 16)

David Eso

#16. War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.

Paul Di Filippo

#17. 1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#18. At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#19. Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved
for it is God's teaching and not mine.

Martin Luther

#20. ...because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes.

Melissa Hill

#21. My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.

Mike Birbiglia

#22. I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

Bill Mumy

#23. When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Maxim Gorky

#24. I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids.

Florence Converse

#25. What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth.

Meher Baba