Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, twentieth and/or century:
“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Sublimity is the echo of great mind.”
—Longinus (3rd century A.D.)