Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Machado

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

Edwidge Danticat

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

Dick Clark

I don't make culture. I sell it.

Brad Bird

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Bobby Jindal

I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are difficult cases, but I am prolife. And I understand we've got to go through the Supreme Court.

Augusten Burroughs

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Dana Gioia

Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.

Nancy Gibbs

What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.

Luke Rhinehart

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

Christopher Plummer

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

Dwayne Johnson

I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

We presume that people are pop culture junkies,

Simone Weil

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

Susan Isaacs

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

Shane Carruth

'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.

Steve Largent

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.

Vladimir Putin

The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Thomas Mann

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

Alex D. Linz

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Albert Einstein

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

Andrew Lansley

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Adriano Giannini

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.

The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, or incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

We still have a tender place in our heart, for Mexico and the flag, our culture and our language, but we're in the United States, and we have to respect the American flag.

Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

Wes Studi

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

Win Butler

I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.

Aasif Mandvi

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

Ben Carson

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

Tasha Smith

I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

We definitely wanted to go deep into the cult of personality that these kind of people have with their fans.