“We could watch the madmen, on clement days, sauntering and skipping among the trim gravel walks and pleasantly planted lawns; happy collaborationists… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I… — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
My first arrival in India was memorable - landing at Delhi airport at 2 A.M. to start filming 'The Jewel in the… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
Honestly, I hate Facebook - it has nothing on Myspace. I loved how weird and crappy and wild and trashy it was.… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
“The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice… — Abraham Hayward Copy Share Image
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful.… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure.… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off.… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
“I am from Lebanon, from Beirut and Saida I am from the ground underneath my home I am from the trees, the… — Talal Kassem Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
My wife is Indonesian-Japanese... and what happened is, she found me doing a documentary on pencak silat. And through the process of… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a dance, and the ancient Wyr were late to the ball. They donned masks and slipped with silent predatory grace… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our… — Tan France Copy Share Image
This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Most people aren't encouraged to think of their labor as very valuable. We usually think of it as the necessary thing we… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“We violate God’s intention for the human family by creating false categories of value and identity, based on identifiable characteristics such as… — Jennifer Harvey Copy Share Image
Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a… — Fred Polak Copy Share Image
“Even though there is clearly a strong cultural no-no machine telling you not to summon them on what is functionally penalty of… — Jerry Holkins Copy Share Image
In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
“By defining society not as an entity made up of individual people but as a collection of cultures--such as white culture, black… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers.… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
“I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does… — Alicia Sixtos Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life in L.A. and I'm still amazed at things that I don't know about the place. There… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“Asked by a student for an example of infectious cultural junk that is hard to eradicate, I replied, "Well, it's like, when,… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
