Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I believe we have reduced the complexity and diversity of the Scriptures to systematic...

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Often we don’t notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

Victoria is a clever satirist, … She understands the awfulness that’s at the heart of a lot of modern culture.

..Pamanku yang berjiwa lapang dan merupakan umat Nabi Muhammad yang amat pemurah, menyediakan kopi miskin dalam menu warungnya. Sesekali, secara diam-diam, pamanku menyuruh kami menambahkan gula untuk kopi miskin, karena ia tak sampai hati pada...

A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.

We live in a culture of violence.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you...

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the...

We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative...

Culture was actually humanity’s attempt to extend the womb.

because I have the ability to use force and control to make others do as I please, I have the right to use this force and control.” It is the disease of corporate and imperial...

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief...

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one...

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a “literary salon”; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it.

While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses,...

If you really have an open mind, you would surely discover that every race has some good and bad people in it. Therefore, it would be very unwise to condemn an entire race just because...

The time you save is just what makes the difference between trivia and culture.

Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

I didn’t much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, ‘let’s play the slot machines all night’ culture of the place just left me cold.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I’ve ended up doing that myself.

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city–a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has...

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

When their voices didn’t reach my ears,I rebelled against my own skin too young to realize that without their stories I would starve.

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country’s unique culture and folk customs.

Kebudayaan tidak dapat dipertahankan saja, kita harus berusaha merobah dan memajukan, oleh karena kebudayaan sebagai kultuur, sebagai barang yang tumbuh, dapat hilang dan bisa maju.

If there’s a message from this, it’s all about culture. It took a lot of years and hard work, but we’ve created a culture of entrepreneurship here.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.

‘Never,’ enjoins a women’s magazine, ‘mention the size of his [penis] in public… and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right.’...

When I first went to ‘National Geographic,’ I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us,...

Often we blame a region’s religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it’s also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Das Netz ist das Ende des Mainstreams […]

I’m absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I’m a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It’s a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the earth, born of its flesh like a tree or a flower, deep-rooted, not by our...

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker’s life.

I’m from New York so I feel very at home in London. It’s like a metropolitan breeding ground for culture, art and diversity. I was very moved by how accepted I was there. There was...

Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

We are a new unified culture, more efficient, more profitable and with better service for our customers.