Twentieth Century Motor

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

    “The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “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)

    “Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
    If they keep silent before the learned.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

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