“Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Obviously, since 9/11, here in this country there has been a resurgence of fear and people feeling distrustful of other people that… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
“What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful and appealing philosophy is also true for Christians… — Brian J. Walsh Copy Share Image
Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think women don't see themselves and their sexuality as wholesome. And yet men's sexuality is everywhere. We experience it as a… — Sheila Kelley Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring… — George Will Copy Share Image
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
If you were to turn on the TV in 1986, '87, you wouldn't see anybody having, I guess, a low-to-middle-income person of… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect… — Johannes Grenzfurthner Copy Share Image
21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
People came to America and they did not abandon their own cultures, but they assumed new ones, a new one, an American… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into… — Gena Lee Nolin Copy Share Image
There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an… — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because… — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
If you want to get power, listen carefully. Don't be impulsive. Don't arrogantly insert your opinion. Express gratitude. Cultivate a culture of… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
“Although a youth culture was in evidence by the 1950s, the first obvious and dramatic manifestation of a culture generated by peer-orientation… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Above all things, Strikeforce is a stable, established business that has experience with live events, and it has the martial arts culture.… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
We have to look at levels of migration. We are in a world that is quite chaotic. Some people are really frightened… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
