Quotes About Culture

Don't look like a fool with your pants on the ground!

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

We're English. There's no cure for that.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

Birdie-bird plant, is it shameful for girls to send messages to boys?" "No, it's not." "Should I send more messages then?" "Just to those boys you love.

There is nothing political about American literature.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Right." He smirked. "The girl with the Irish name who looks about as Irish as I do.

The Italians have that wonderful verb, raccontare , that means to tell a story.

Naples isn't so much the southernmost city in mainland Europe as the northernmost city in Africa.

The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.

If you're not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?" For a moment he was silent. Then he rubbed his chin and said, "There's no name for it in English." "Oh, is there not? 'Burglary' seems descriptive enough." "Kyojitsu." He looked levelly into her eyes, not wavering. "False-true.

Founder Rouse wanted to challenge a lot of ingrained biases in our culture; taste was not among them. He gave people the ticky-tacky houses they wanted. The only real choices were brick or wood siding, a Baltimore or a D.C. prefix for your phone.

Where are you getting your material—Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking

what our father called a chifforobe

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by im- posing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

I didn't talk on the way back to the Hill of Dust. But the maestra did. The whole way, she murmured the sweetest, softest words in Mixteco, words from Grandfather that floated here and there like feathers.

lenguas de los pueblos con los que entabla

while the great lot of the rest of them went around dressed as if for a carnival, a grandiloquent parade of ridiculous and absurd Third Worlders. And

Sean asked her if she was an Olympic weight lifter. "No," she said. "I am Polish.

The two of them hiding behind their mother tongues as if there was no way to bridge the gap.

Two of them hiding behind their mother tongues as there was no way to bridge the gap.