Quotes About Culture

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word, 'extraordinary'. It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones. The North American publisher is likewise inclined.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

Youth has become a class.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

It is important to remember that, in strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man.

So don't ask me how to catch Jes Grew. Ask Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, your poets, your painters, your musicians, ask them how to catch it. Ask those people who be shaking their tambourines impervious of the ridicule they receive from Black and White Atonists, Europe the ghost rattling its chains down the deserted halls of their brains.

Nga shqiptarë të sunduar u gdhinë në mysliman të çliruar?

They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!

No party in the US can hope to rule without the support of Jewish money and Jewish power in the media and academia.

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.

They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.

?udnovao kako je u svakoj duši u Bosni draga strašna pri?a, utoliko draža i bliža što istinski život ?oveku manje radosti i zabave pruža.

Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.

remembering that human beings cannot produce 20,000 unique sounds, even if you were to include belching and hawking great globs of phlegm (which I think counts in Chinese), the linguistic powers that be--whoever they are--threw in tones, possibly to ensure that no foreigner over the ages of thirty would have any chance whatsoever of understanding that Chinese language.

How's it going down there? It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

Well now, this must be love. You sharing the biscuits." "They're cookies. Biscuits are hot bread you smother in butter or gravy. Remember which side of the Atlantic you're on, ace.