The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They’re all intertwined.

Don’t let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

Muslims are an easy target unfortunately in our culture. It’s become sort of a hybrid enemy image, like it or not. We may say we have no issue with Islam, but we do fear terrorists...

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today’s woman has become her “beauty.

At least a third of a woman’s life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition–so that women will only feel...

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language an altered perspective, for a group of phenomena that tradition tended...

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige...

Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it.

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.

The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even...

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Music is always a reflection of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

They took their time understanding NASCAR’s culture and goals and objectives of how we operated.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.

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...

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia...

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

Caregivers, like all of us, inevitably reflect their culture’s attitude toward children and life. The story goes that when Pearl Buck was a child in China, someone asked how she compared her mother to her...

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative...

After long admiring 3M for its unique culture of innovation, decades of success, wealth of technology and outstanding people, I look forward to being part of the team that will make real the tremendous potential...

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are…It is only that life forces upon them choices that we do not have...

It’s a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. […] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I...

Apropos of Eskimo, I once heard a missionary describe the extraordinary difficulty he had found in translating the Bible into Eskimo. It was useless to talk of corn or wine to a people who did...

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Culture is a catalyst which expedites the reaction called success.

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do...

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements...

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.

The goal of the Pops … is still to keep the music somehow reflective of the popular culture of the day, but also reach out. Really, you know, the Pops is the best cultural outreach...

the pro-gun, anti-tax, limited government, anti-illegal immigration, pro-public safety, pro-death penalty, culture-of-life, trust-the-people conservative.

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree,...

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

If traditional doesn’t work, then traditions won’t do.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger,...

We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world—in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light...

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!

A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men’s appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes–all of which we do. The fact...

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.