Quotes About Culture

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.

I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this . . . "A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.

New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

What is your opinion of a society that considers Turkey in the Straw to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?

The children on that [American Bandstand] program should all be gassed.

the visitors to that questionable museum would defecate into their garish tourist outfits

Scholars gather in scholarly assemblages to hear in elegant statement what all have heard before. Again, it is not a negligible rite, for its purpose is not to convey knowledge but to beatify learning and the learned.

C'é infatti un numero considerevole di persone di cultura convinte che qualsiasi sforzo riuscito per rendere le idee vive, intellegibili e interessanti sia una manifestazione di scarso rigore professionale. E' questa la fortezza dentro la quale regolarmente si rifugiano.

RAVs (Russians, Arabs, and Villains) who view London as the place to go if you want to buy respectability.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

In ancient Greek the word 'idiot' meant anyone who wasn't a politician.

Mongolians will never eat a marmot's armpits because "they contain the soul of a dead hunter.

In Spanish, the word esposas means both 'wives' and 'handcuffs'.

Pedants should be aware that the English name for the world's highest mountain should be spoken aloud as EEV-uh-rest, not EV-uh-rest.

Just like humans, British cows moo in accents specific to their region.

Zischeln is a useful German verb meaning "to whisper angrily.

The other Andamanese languages have no known relatives. They have five numbers: one, two, one more, some more, and all. On

Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit.

Hravat is the Croatian word for "Croat" and it's where we get the word cravat. So Croatia means "tie land.

Where does Chicken Tikka Masala come from? Glasgow.