Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, twentieth, century and/or fox:
“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)
“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)
“A fox cannot hide its tail.”
—Chinese proverb.