Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, twentieth and/or century:
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“A nation rushing hastily to and fro, busily employed in idleness.”
—Phaedrus (c. 1st century A.D.)