Twentieth Century Motor

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

    “In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the end of life but the final saturation with absence.”
    —Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)

    “Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “The motor idles.
    Over the immense upland
    the pulse of their blossoming
    thunders through us.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)