Quotes About Culture

Yes, there are vampires. Try to keep up.

SOCIETY IS A CARNIVOROUS FLOWER

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.

Tapi, Indonesia menyimpan terlalu banyak rahasia. Dan keanekaragamannya pun amat kelewatan...

It was a weekday afternoon, and the working people of Kamaya were away at their shops, factories, and offices. Most of the parents who came to the school were full-time mothers and housewives; most of the villagers offering their opinions were retired, elderly, and male. It was another enactment of the ancient dialogue, its lines written centuries ago, between the entreating voices of women and the oblivious, overbearing dismissiveness of old men.

Christa had quickly discovered one of the defining features of life as a foreigner in Japan and the reason it attracts so many misfits of different kinds: personal alienation, that inescapable sense of being different from everyone else, is canceled out by the larger, universal alienation of being a gaijin.

This cultural Left thinks more about stigma than about money, more about deep and hidden psychosexual motivations than about shallow and evident greed.

When the Right proclaims that socialism has failed, and that capitalism is the only alternative, the cultural Left has little to say in reply. For it prefers not to talk about money. Its principal enemy is a mind-set rather than a set of economic arrangements –– a way of thinking which is, supposedly, at the root of both selfishness and sadism.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

By the time I left Phnom Penh I could have written a Cambodian cookbook called 50 Ways to Wok Your Dog.

There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.

every employee and manager must understand who you are as a company, and what you stand for. They must be true to your brand values and be able to passionately explain them to your prospects and customers.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

I can't use these things," McKenna said, setting down her chopsticks. "Can I have a fork?" Ben's brow furrowed. "But you are Chinese." "Only my genes," McKenna said. Ben looked at her pants. "Your jeans are from China?" McKenna shook her head. "Never mind.

I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing".

We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

Chin now joined chai (tea) and shchi (cabbage soup) to form a triad around which revolved a great deal of Russian life.

sociosexual propagation misfits.

People in other countries, they all want to come to America. They say, "You can eat twenty-four hours a day in America." I say yeah, they're right. If you have some money, or a pistol, you can get something to eat.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.