Quotes About Culture

I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French

He had reached that condition of mind which the old Vikings used to call Berserk and which among modern Malays is termed running amok.

The metropolitan touch sometimes proves a trifle too exotic for the provinces.

By the way, one generally shakes hands in the smartest circles. Yours seem to be down there somewhere. Might I trouble you? Right. Got it? Thanks!

Hands up!' said Mr Cootes with the uncouth curtness of one who has not had the advantages of a refined home and a nice upbringing.

England still firmly believes that wealth accrues to every resident of New York by some mysterious process not understandable of the Briton.

There are all sorts of restaurants in London—from the restaurant which makes you fancy you are in Paris to the restaurant which makes you wish you were.

You could tell it was classical, because the banjo players were leaning back and chewing gum; and in New York restaurants only death or a classical speciality can stop banjoists.

Some poems survive it to become poems in another language," he argued, "but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in which case the translator can manage no more than a reproduction, an effigy, of the original.

a los bárbaros se les caían de las botas, de las barbas, de los yelmos, de las herraduras, como piedrecitas, las palabras luminosas que se quedaron aquí resplandecientes... el idioma. Salimos perdiendo... Salimos ganando... Se llevaron el oro y nos dejaron el oro... Se lo llevaron todo y nos dejaron todo... Nos dejaron las palabras.

Le raffinement culinaire était l'orgueil suprême des trois soeurs ; la table représentait pour elles la conservation d'un héritage sacré, d'une culture aux terres de laquelle elles ne reviendraient plus, écartées de leur patrie par le temps et par des mers immenses. J'avoue que j'ai vécu

After Altamira, all is decadence - we have invented nothing

The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.

Yet what I truly disliked, in certain gloomy moments and not always consciously, was my skin color itself

It's useless to obsess over one standard of beauty, since it can change as soon as you cross a border. My travels have taught me this: The world can't decide what's beautiful. So you decide, okay?

Forget you were born a Hindu, and don't be an American. Take the best of them both

Television has a satanic influence.

Alike in soul though diverse in outer experience, neither West nor East will flourish if some form of disciplinary yoga be not practiced.

The Sama Veda of India contains the world's earliest writings on musical science. The

I'm not, like, that smart.

There is no human society without some musical tradition. Although the traditions are very different, some principles can be found everywhere.

Societies have religion because social cohesion requires something like religion. Social groups would fall apart if ritual did not periodically reestablish that all members are part of a greater whole.

Having a normal human brain does not imply that you have religion. All it implies is that you can acquire it, which is very different.

Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.