The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I mean, we were hearing music all the way through the islands. You know, we, when we visit the islands, of course… — John Musker Copy Share Image
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French… — Masaharu Morimoto Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
“Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory… — David C. Cassidy Copy Share Image
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“All oblivious to my dreams, and to my state of struggle: some would greet me, smiling at me. But some laughed the… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
There's a culture war in this country. Americans in recent years, as you know, have become more secular. They don't go to… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is… — Stromae Copy Share Image
Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
“Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
“In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Quentin Schultze says that we have become like tourists who are so enamored by our mode of transportation that we cruise through… — Tim Challies Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Being in conversation with everything popular culture, there's such a danger there. Sometimes you just don't realize how it comes across, but… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image