Action Quote by Alan Keyes

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made often during…

— Kevin Costner

The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the…

— George Steiner

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

— Eric Rohmer

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and…

— Thomas Pynchon

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices, rather than…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things,…

— Donald Kagan

Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange…

— Joanna Newsom

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until…

— Henry James