Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
“Abolishing centuries old traditions of the prosperous South, seemed to motivate their envious souls into annihilating what looked to the world, God’s… — Max Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians,… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the 'truth' really is true, and the meaning of all culture is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in… — Paul Scalia Copy Share Image
Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I think I was drawn to black culture by the same things that have been drawing the entire world to it since… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our… — John L. Flannery Copy Share Image
“This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino,… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
“I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink,… — Allison Glock Copy Share Image
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such… — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
“A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something to… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image