Culture Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Fall Feels Sometimes Stools Two
When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I think there's sometimes great cultures where there's some angst and friction even. — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture. — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony. — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places. — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective. — Stephanie Gilmore Copy Share Image
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie 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