While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
My favorite parts are definitely the traveling. Getting to see all the places that we've been is really amazing to me, [as… — Agent M Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Ultimately, strong branding is not just a promise to our customers,to our partners, to our shareholders and to our communities;it is also… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you,… — RZA Copy Share Image
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws.… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
I've been interested in terrorism from the very beginning. My first novel is about that, too, and I think one reason I've… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
“On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Never discount another man's faith just because it is dressed in another language foreign to your own. Language can be used as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life,… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
How is it possible that in just the last ten years all of these things which were taboo throughout our culture, throughout… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
“There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. More extensive quote: "the theme of… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
Our culture is making a big difference and, whether it's our curries or movies like "Slumdog Millionaire" or whether it's just the… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
When somebody asks me, "Who are you?" I tell them, "I am the oldest ethnic transgender community in the world, which has… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
When people break up, after sharing their entire souls with each other, I don't want to believe that you just switch off.… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“No culture exists within which everyone does not feel "different" from others and does not consider such "differences" to be legitimate and… — René Girard Copy Share Image
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and… — Scott Crow Copy Share Image
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed.… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I think women in our global patriarchal culture are told to shut their body down. And when we don't know why, we… — Sheila Kelley Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
![“My favorite parts are definitely the traveling. Getting to see all the places that we've been is really amazing to me, [as well as] getting to meet all the people that we wouldn't normally meet. It's really awesome, because we really get to know their culture and see what it's like in other places…” quote by Agent M](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76e/agent-m-67040_culture_my-favorite-parts-are-definitely-the-tra_2904897.jpg)
![“When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc1/oliver-stone-1812_age_when-i-go-to-the-movies-and-i-have-to-si_810722.jpg)
![“[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the…” quote by Ellen Cushing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/ellen-cushing-96117_charity_i-f-you-don-t-feel-or-look-rich-you-don_617644.jpg)
