Early 20th Century Sayings

#1. As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two.

Michael Dirda

#3. Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

Adam Davidson

#4. The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Paul Davies

#5. Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

Krista Tippett

#6. Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

Carl Honore

#7. I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

Iris Apfel

#8. 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

#9. Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.

Jane Ridley

#10. The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

Britt Daniel

#11. 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

William Gibson

#12. Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Janet Napolitano

#13. I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Jeff Healey

#14. One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

Criss Angel

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

Nicholas Sparks

#18. I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Will Sergeant

#19. Are you okay?" "I'm alive," he said simply.

Amanda Hocking

#20. 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

#21. You don't want to miss out on people. If you assume everyone is out to get you, then you're going to shut them down before they have a chance to prove you wrong.

Jessica Park

#22. I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.

Michael Jackson

#23. I wish this were the kind if things kids learned early on. Gender doesn't determine the things you like, your hobbies, or your personality.

Alida Nugent

#24. I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

David Nicholls

#25. All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.

Tony Judt

#26. 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

#27. I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

Oscar Isaac

#28. Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.

Mark Forsyth

#29. 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

#30. It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

Dwight Yoakam

#31. There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power

Dave Hampton

#32. When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

Eckhart Tolle

#33. This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon to this town. I think you'll find people who have succeeded because of that kind of open culture.

Richard Kinder

#34. St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.

William Henry Danforth

#35. I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid.

Leila Rasheed

#36. All of my grandparents came to the United States from Italy during the early years of the 20th century. I believe that my grandparents came here to take advantage of the opportunities furnished by a growing country with an open society.

Samuel Alito

#37. 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

#38. I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.

Morris Gleitzman

#39. The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.

Tony Buzan

#40. Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

Billy Gibbons