After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine;… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture,… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture.… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
'Catfish' is a great project that we have a blast doing, and it's really fun and at the zeitgeist in the world… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“Mitch," he said, "the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel,… — Gerald Haslam Copy Share Image
If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air.… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do feel as a Mexican rapper specifically, because we're so underrepresented, we do have a little bit more pressure. Other rappers,… — Snow Tha Product Copy Share Image
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“We are a race of tradition-lovers in a new land, of king-reverers in a Republic, of hero-worshipers in a society of mundane… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We… — Jazzie B Copy Share Image
You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I want to make the playoffs here, figure out how to change the culture in Sacramento. Just from being there, the city… — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image