Happy 20th Quotes & Sayings

I'm happy and I'm focused on my work ... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States. — Eiza Gonzalez

The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar. — Adam Nicolson

The books are your teacher, after and before school. — Deyth Banger

This is a tough business to run for president. — Jeb Bush

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils. — Thomas Paine

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past — Leo Rosten

When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most. — Anonymous

Everything dangerous and risky was exciting. Maybe she should try some excitement. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. — Billy Bragg

Now let me get this plan for adult living straight. Suppose it is 11 o'clock at night, and I am in my room with my girl and a bottle of bourbon. What..."
"Well, that surely is a happy thought, isn't it?"
-An exchange between a University of Oklahoma student and President George Lynn Cross, mid 20th century — George Lynn Cross

I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves. [in response to Rousseau's "The Social Contract"] — Voltaire