Culture Quotes

Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color and culture have a lot to do with that.

I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.

The places I've travelled and cultures I've experienced have been reflected in my home decor choices.

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

I would love to study cultures and people.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.

Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that will make your entire organization flourish.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.

When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty.

When I lived in Jamaican I lived in Kingston, in Spanish Town, and when I go there the only place I want to go is Kingston because that's where the culture is the richest.

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.