Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Renée Arrington

If you find that you have several disengaged workers, that might be symptomatic of your culture.

Beppe Severgnini

If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.

Reese Witherspoon

I'm having a great time playing Becky, ... She's a world away from Elle Woods and for me it's a great departure. It was a natural decision for me to get as far away from American pop culture as I could.

Amy Jordan

I know it's going to be a major culture shock, ... From little Hibbing to big Beijing.

Carl Andre

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

Elizabeth Kostova

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Brit Marling

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Andy Grove

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

Susan Sarandon

When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.

Niki Lauda

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

Jessie Ware

I'm not a complicated person.

Bebe Neuwirth

I am a very complicated person.

Candice Swanepoel

Women are complicated. We all know that.

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Tommy Futral

If you can't see through your plant somewhat, then you haven't done enough pruning.

William Cullen Bryant

We plant, upon the sunny lea, A shadow for the noontide hour, A shelter from the summer shower, When we plant the apple-tree.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Rick Santorum

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,

Michael Pollan

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.