Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

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.

Bruce Schneier

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

Simply put, it works. The Exxon Mobil culture is something that a lot of people would like to understand better. I'm not really going to help them understand it, because it's the source of our competitive advantage.

Archie Shepp

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

Ben Nicholson

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

Barbara Kingsolver

A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

We're here tonight to remember one of the heroes of the Scottish culture, ... Cmdr. Montgomery Scott -- Scotty.

This probably comes from the old Progressive Party culture.

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.

We tried not to violate their culture, we tried not to take too many photos. We promised them we'd return. And we did, this year.

We're at a technological and cultural crossroads. It's possibly the dawn of a new paradigm in how films are released.

Eric Schmidt

We hope to have many other facilities in China. We hope...to take the great cultural works, the books, music and movies...and make them available.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

We use the latest in natural cultural practices. Kevin Hicks (course superintendent) has done an excellent job.

Edward Abbey

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Dominic West

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

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?

Ernestine Rose

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

Lee Smith

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.

Walter Benjamin

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

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.

Gunter Grass

The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected.