Quotes About Culture

The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.

If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the 'like' culture. As a society, we're consuming so much imagery, it's like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a 'like' culture is by presenting the unknown.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.