Quotes About Culture

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.

I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.