Quotes About Culture

I go to my parents' over Christmas. I definitely do, but I don't see it as a Christmas because during Christmas there was also a Viking holiday. So I just to choose to see it as that!

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.

Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.

I never hear terrorists say 'Merry Christmas,' only 'Allahu Akbar'.

Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

Look at evangelicals, you can't even use the word "Christmas" any more, Macy's doesn't use the word "Christmas". With me, it is going to stop, it is going to stop, and they understand that.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up.

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.