Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Gunn

Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers.

Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Big Sean

I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

Chris Jericho

In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes.

A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.

Natasha Trethewey

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

Gore Vidal

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

C. S. Lewis

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Bethenny Frankel

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Jane Fonda

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Laura Bush

The American people realize we have a new culture and that is one of being vigilant,

We have always felt that the fellowships in question were but a small part of an overall graduate program that provides opportunities for thousands of our students, from every imaginable cultural background, to pursue graduate degrees while working at Southern Illinois University.

We need to know whether there is a culture that promotes inappropriate relationships with women,

Reza Aslan

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

Marquis de Lafayette

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.

Mary Harris

We've learned about the different cultural dances and dress. And the food is great, too.

Octavio Paz

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Mona Simpson

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

Mira Nair

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Microsoft is no longer the worst offender when it comes to sitting on patches. Oracle has taken that crown. But I think there's still a culture at Microsoft that security is a PR issue that must be handled delicately. And that's a dangerous culture.

Will the new population demand that the cultural feel of the French Quarter, the Garden District and the rest stay the same? ... Or will they be OK with a lot of new shopping malls taking over? Who knows?

Wireless communications are an integral part of our culture today.

I think it will be a little different culture than what you are used to.

Juniper's participation underscores their culture of participating in proof-of-concept for emerging communications technologies.

It is essential that donors respond accordingly by maintaining an emergency culture in their decision-making and response.

Managing water is as much cultural as technical, reflecting how peoples and communities relate themselves to nature.

Managers can't manage diverse cultures successfully until they understand what culture is and know their own culture.

John Bolton

Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,

Mary Lambert

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

We have not handled success well. We have not handled prosperity well. So my message to the kids is, listen it's a 10-round fight and what happened in the third-round today has no bearings on what happens next week. That's been the mindset, and I think this team has the culture of holding each other accountable so that that doesn't happen.