Culture Quote by Pete Dexter Download Open image “Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.” — Pete Dexter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Foolish Looks Tradition
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there… — Hugo Demartini Copy Share Image
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“No one mentions that now, and I suppose no one is inclined to bring it up, particularly not my father, who in other matters… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“and low-life cable network producers, who have never had a thought in their heads that did not come from something else they saw on… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“I had noticed, even then, that there were certain women whom other women instinctively disliked, and that these women invariably had more bait in… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“Spooner noticed another, smaller Marine Corps tattoo encircling Marlin's ankle: Semper Fi Forever. Everywhere he went these days, Spponer witnessed America's crying need for… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
