Quotes About Culture

as they near his apartment, he leans toward the plexiglass and says to the driver, in Bengali, 'It's that one, up on the right.' The driver turns around, surprised, smiling. 'I didn't realize,' he says. 'That's okay,' Gogol says, reaching for his wallet. He tips the driver excessively and steps out of the car.

The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.

And for the first time in his life, another man's name upset Gogol more than his own.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.