Quotes About Culture

Art for art's sake, we say, because beauty blesses humanity with a better life.

Antonio was fascinated by Isabel's razor-sharp knives from Japan. He made 'kia' sounds like a karate expert as he sliced the tomatoes and added them to the pan. there were some unexpected ingredients, things Tess would never dream of putting in tomato sauce- whole star anise, a vanilla bean split down the middle, a sprinkling of sugar, a sprig of thyme and bay leaves from the herb garden.

The girls used to play together in Portsmouth Square, surrounded by Chinese grannies sipping their milk tea and playing board games. They'd snack on soft buns filled with sweet coconut, and when it rained, they'd dunk into the curio shops or the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, their senses dazzled by the delicious, sugary aroma.

lemon-mint monarda, which looks like purple pagodas and makes an effective insect repellent and a tangy tea; brown-eyed Susans, whose root juice the Cherokee used to treat earache;

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce.

She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing).

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

The power of the Slavic people is in the strength and determination of their women.

This is Hollywood," Flotsam said, "where men are men and so are the women.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well.

Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in.

It's almost like that's the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

Groups don't really impact a local church until they become part of a church's culture. And that begins with senior leadership.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

The learning principle is to plunge into the detailed mystery of the micro in order to understand what makes the macro tick. Our obstacle is that we live in an attention-deficit culture.

What keeps me in New York is neither the high culture of museums and concert halls nor the unrivaled opportunities for working, eating, and spending that New Yorkers revel in. Rather it is a sensibility that is distinctly working-class—generous; open-minded but skeptical; idealistic but deflating of pretension; bursting with energy and a commitment to doing.

was this theater or Judaism? Or just an unconscious attempt to bring the cramped city-apartment ambience back to our holidays?

But I would submit that even messianism, even false messianism, is more Jewish a discipline than history