Quotes About Culture

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

Chinese people age overnight.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

You never see a French person eating alone.

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.