Twentieth Century Motor

Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, twentieth and/or motor:

    “A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious “retreat” of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    “What shall we do with country quiet now?
    A motor drones insanely in the blue
    Like a bad bird in a dream.”
    —Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)