Quotes About Culture

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.

I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.

I'm not superstitious at all. I'm not a Russian.

Chinese people have that superstitious fix - people always do feng shui when they are opening a shop; even the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank pays people to do feng shui for them.

A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I'm the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.

Obviously I am Prateik Babbar but I would like to be called Prateik. I am superstitious; there is a spiritual reason why.

Creating a flexible working culture is about trust. How much can your employees rely on each other to get the job done without the benefit of supervision?

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.

I empathize with players. In our culture it is all about strategies and interventions to help the individual based on their individual needs. It is not just about supplements or putting painkillers in your mouth. You have to educate yourself about that.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

From day one working in TV, I have been very conscious of the way the Irish are represented, In every show I've been involved in I read the script, take out the Irishisms right away and say, 'I'll supply those'.

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.