Quotes About Culture

The Americans, he laughed drunkenly. They build more cars than anybody in the world, and take them out and dump them in terrible traffic jams. The only thing crazier than the Americans were the Russians, who never had traffic jams because they didn't have cars.

Ä'hn ?i, múa nhiêu qúa?" "Ph?i roi, ch?c không có ngú?i m? dêm na?

Mongolia, which he described as "Montana in the seventeenth century.

History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature.

The fossils were sublime, but I found as much fascination in the odd paraphernalia of culture that, for various reasons, end up in museum drawers. Late eighteenth century apothecary boxes, thread cases from the mills of Lawrence, Victorian cigar boxes of gaudy Cuban design - all the better to house fossils.

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

Whenever anything happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking.

The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

I'm the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Trump and his cronies took it all back. They understand culture no more than a donkey understands algebra.

There is a rhythm to our language. they echo the rhythm of our life.

Lack of culture equals to parallel lives, however through art, oneness, sanity and sense of belonging is restored.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.