Culture Quotes · Page 80

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

— John Lahr

I've always felt there was something wrong with Wells Fargo's culture, for a very, very long time.

— Steve Eisman

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

— Thomas Kinkade

Subconsciously it is possible to act, consciously it is possible to decide and overconsciously to create.

— Ilkin Santak

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

— John Walford

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

— Richard Stearns

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.

— Anonymous

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the…

— James A. Baldwin

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in…

— Lucy Freeman

Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a…

— Alexandre Desplat

Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health…

— Mark Whitwell

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and…

— Wim Wenders

You know that we are against major foreign equity participation in the field of culture and information. This is not only our…

— Sushma Swaraj

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New…

— Susan Cain

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what…

— Noam Chomsky

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us…

— Harry Frankfurt

Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning…

— Ivan Illich

I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the…

— David McCullough

“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to…

— Paul McAuley

World War II vets in general didn't talk about their experiences. They believed there was something better and that they were going…

— Michele Norris

This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes…

— Andrew Bird

Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary…

— Eben Alexander

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not…

— Terence McKenna

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture.

— Takashi Murakami

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

— Meghan McCain

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind…

— Jacob Bronowski

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

— Fat Joe

There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.

— Jim Cornette

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

— John Lothrop Motley

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

— Leon Krier

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

— Hugh Hefner

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

— R. C. Sproul

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

— Jackie Chan

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

— Zachary Quinto

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

— Morris Gleitzman

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and…

— Aziz Ansari