Culture Quotes

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.