Midcentury Quotes

#1. I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Mark Helprin

#2. I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

William Gibson

#3. They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").

Miranda July

#4. If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.

Joseph J. Romm

#5. Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantanaiy are exasperated by the slow toils of history. They assume that the thunderclap of cause will be swiftly followed by the lightening bolt of effect.

William Manchester

#6. The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

Blake Bailey

#7. The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America.

Elizabeth Winder

#8. The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Isn't it possible that this midcentury moment enters the skin more lastingly than the vast shaping strategies of eminent leaders, generals steely in their sunglasses -- the mapped visions that pierce our dreams?

Don DeLillo

#10. The possibilities far outweigh the disappointments. Keep learning, keep believing and keep seeking.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.

Ilsa J. Bick

#12. I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#14. You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

Harrison Ford

#15. John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

Cynthia Lennon

#16. Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got to act a comedy now, dead serious.

Luigi Pirandello

#18. Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

Narendra Modi

#19. Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#20. Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

Billy Graham

#21. All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Aristotle.