Culture Quotes

When I go to Bali, when I come to India and travel and see different cultures. I make sure I'm involved in the world out there, creatively, culturally.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.

The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.

Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.

Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that is a change that is happening in the consumer culture.

As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.

Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.