Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flea

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

Eden Sher

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

We're trying to recreate the culture that existed before.

Gloria Steinem

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

Colin Firth

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

Cynthia Ozick

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Clifford Geertz

Culture is public, because meaning is

When you get into a different culture, for me, I was in shock. If I need to be productive in my job, I don't need to have these problems.

This sale will be a truly exceptional event. With the exception of the great spiritual leaders, his influence on Western culture is more profound than any individual who has lived.

There is a culture of pessimism in Germany. There is a sense that something can go wrong and they tend to look around for it.

There is a culture of pessimism in Germany.

There is a culture of impunity that no one would be held fully accountable for detainee deaths.

Dennis Potter

There is a culture of anti-Mormonism on this campus.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

We think the safety and health culture may have been a little lax at this plant. Some of these violations had existed for years.

Billie Armstrong

We were watching things unfold, surrounded by all that was going on in the news and pop culture. I wanted to say the most controversial (things) I could while still keeping the songs smart and articulate. And there's a sense of humor there, which makes it more inviting than if I were just pointing fingers.

We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun!

Kurt Vonnegut

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.