What is Milan's character? Let's not be closed in by our…

In New York there are between four and six big designers, and the shows last one week. There is something wrong here. It's our…

— Franca Sozzani

Milan is showing a new and different face. At Porta Nuova, too, when they started construction, everyone was up in arms, saying Milan was…

— Franca Sozzani

The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to…

— Nyla Ali Khan

How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility…

— Juan Trippe

“Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.”

— Patrick Kavanagh

“I feel so sorry for anyone who misses the experience of history, the horizons of history. We think little of those who, given the…

— David G. McCullough

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than…

— Edward Abbey

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge…

— Paula Fox

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes…

— O. Henry

“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would be. Truman,…

— David McCullough

A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our…

— Afshin Molavi

“The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him ‘the spectator’, if not of all,…

— C.S. Lewis

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we…

— Molly Ivins

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

— Alvin Toffler