Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

Bruno Latour

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Alan Ball

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

Cesar Chavez

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Edward Said

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

Brad Pitt

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

Abbas Kiarostami

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

Criss Angel

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.

Anthony Bourdain

One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Bette Davis

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

Anthony Storr

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

Bill Vaughan

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Bill Vaughan

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

Bill Vaughan

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

Bertrand Russell

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

Bertrand Russell

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

Twyla Tharp

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

Young Buck

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

Yanni

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

Yanis Varoufakis

I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

Thomas Dekker

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Thomas Dekker

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age

Idina Menzel

I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

Ian Mckellen

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.