20th-Century Quotes

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Love, Time, Art

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
Hugh Mackay

Writing, Small, Goal

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

Science, Physics, Early

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
John Shelton Reed

Poor, Useful, Says

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin

Tests, Witchcraft, Polygraph

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Read, Current, Justices

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.
John Larroquette

Books, Fiction, Collect

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