Famous Quotes from 20th-Century American Pop Culture

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Thomas Alva Edison 1847 - 1931

1903
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

Henry Ford 1863 - 1947

May 25, 1916
"History is more or less bunk."

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

March 16, 1930
"What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark."

Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955

"If A is a success in life, them A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

1921
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

December 4, 1926
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

December 1930
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

1941
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Mae West 1892 - 1980

"Is that a gun in your pocket,
or are you just glad to see me?"

(Usually quoted as: "Is that a pistol in your pocket?")

1932 film - Night After Night
"Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!" "Goodness had nothing to do with it."

1933 film - She Done Him Wrong
"Why don't you come up sometime, and see me?"
(Usually quoted as: "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?")

1933 film - I'm No Angel
"It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men."

1933 film - I'm No Angel
"Beulah, peel me a grape."

1937 film - Every Day's a Holiday
"I always say, keep a diary and some day it'll keep you."

W. C. Fields 1880 - 1946

"Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against."

Groucho Marx 1895 - 1977

1959
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962

August 1960
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Stanley Kubrick 1928 - (1999?)

June 5, 1963
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

Andy Warhol 1927 - 1987

1964
"In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."

Alfred Hitchcock 1899 - 1980

December 1965
"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."

Gerald Ford 1909 -

December 6, 1973
"I am a Ford, not a Lincoln."

"If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."

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