Quotes About Culture

The beauty of music is that it is a universal language. I truly believe it knows no boundaries of any kind.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Music truly is the universal language.

Music is really powerful. It's a universal language that connects everyone.

My accent fades away I guess when I sing. It's real weird. I guess singing is pretty much a universal language like you sing however everyone else sings and that's with an American accent. I sound very different when I talk.

Dance is a universal language which allows you to express yourself without words and I think that is why everyone is so enamoured by dance.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

Anything that happens in America culturally resonates throughout the world because the American culture is exported universally.

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

Music connects all of us universally!

Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.

I made 'Siam Sunset.' In Australia, it was pretty much universally hated, but I did notice that almost any American who saw it loved that film, so in 2001 I made a film in America called 'Swimfan,' and they released like a big studio movie, and it made money.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

Voyeurism, watching people go about their daily lives, is universally funny, no matter the culture, no matter the anything, it's just always funny to watch people.

I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.'

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were universities in Egypt and there were monetary systems, the pyramids.

Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.