Quotes About Culture

In Giappone poi, che in qualche modo, anclhe nella maniera meno diretta, rappresenta lo stato, quindi l'imperatore , è investito in maniera maggiore o minore d'un carattere nettamente numinoso. Dinnanzi a lui ci si inchina profondamente, passandogli vicino si guarda per terra, magari tirando su col fiato con quel caratteristico sibilo che indica imbarazzo e reverenza, definito da Pierre Loti "un sifflement de vipère" .

each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

Tko govori o dekolonizaciji? Ništa tako ne kolonizira kao svjetska reklama: u dnu kolibe na kraju svijeta Nike, Coca-Cola, Gap i Calvin Klein zamijenili su Francusku, Englesku, Španjolsku i Belgiju.

We call each other the Hin-Jews because he's Tamilian, and the Tamils of Southern India came from Ethiopia just as the Hebrews from Palestine came from Ethiopia. The DNA is the same.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."

From time to time, her dialogue will be rendered in ordinary English, which Louise does not speak. To do full justice to her speech would require a ladder of footnotes and glosses, a tic of apostrophes (aphaeresis, hyphaeresis, apocope), and a Louise-ese/English dictionary of phonetic spellings.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

François Furstenberg

Por otra parte, tratar lo diverso de las culturas en términos de diferencia conducirá a querer aislarlas y a fijarlas en su identidad.

The glorification of culture in all its manifestations was such that Vienna was probably the only city in the world where fathers rejoiced when their sons decided to devote their lives to music or literature.

Finally, Vienna was the only city in the world in which artists and intellectuals made no attempt to revolt against the bourgeois élite. On the contrary, they remained for a long time perfectly integrated with it. Together they formed a coherent and complete stratum of society in which everyone knew everyone else, and all were united in cultivating 'art for art's sake'.

She married Mr. Gundover's Dick.

Theoretically, the curriculum consists of the "seven liberal arts."2 But schools rarely teach all seven of the arts, and the emphasis is very unequal. These "arts" are "liberal" because their purpose is not moneymaking and because they are worthy of a free man. There are seven mainly because people are fond of the number seven, one of the keys to a numerologically ordered universe.

Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

poate c? exist? frumuse?e pe lumea asta, dar ne place s? ne t?v?lim în urâ?enie, în mizerie ?i vulgaritate.

Put more simply, they did not see art the way we do. They read art in a way we no longer can.

The best decoration in the world is a room full of books.

The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

We've turned into a whining society.

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.