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.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

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.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Ryan Kwanten

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Vera Farmiga

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Lincoln Steffens

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

Judy Woodruff

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

John Malkovich

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

John Lithgow

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Calvin Coolidge

Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.

Dylan O'Brien

When a chick has a sense of humor, theres nothing more attractive.

Seth MacFarlane

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

Patricia Heaton

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone? Or is it about years of commitment and history together? Or is it both? How do you find it, and how do you know? It's a very complicated topic.

Kimberley Nixon

'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

Sandra Bullock

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Jeff Kinney

I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write a film that's not in the 'Wimpy' universe, but I know it will be difficult to create something from scratch. But I love creating good comedy for kids, so I hope to have another successful venture in the future!

Roberto Benigni

The first part of the story is very funny and very full of gags ... then the second part is not a comedy (and) is exactly a real tragedy. This, to me, was wonderful, the balance.

Leslie Mann

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

John Cleese

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

Vince Vaughn

You know, the better scripts I've seen lately have been comedy scripts.

Paul Hornung

You could probably end it in different parts of my life either as a tragedy or a comedy or a success story, ... It all depends on how they'd want to depict it.