#century

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#advertising #any #cause #century #done

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#century #fanfare #ragtime

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

— Paul McCartney

#books #century #children #i #studying

But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#across #affairs #american #american businesses #businesses

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#against #back #because #believe #century

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#first #first time #get #jump #life

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. ↗

— James A. Michener

#century #complains #explains #great #i

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#century #europe #frederick #germanic #most

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#century #devices #distortions #go #lifetime

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

#century #known #long #lot #many