Quotes About Culture

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter."

It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

I never felt totally 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

If we're going to reach the unchurched, underchurched, dechurched, and postchurched with the gospel in a culture that's trending post-Christian, we must rethink our approach.

The reason our evangelistic endeavors result in more recycling than actual conversion is that our methods and approaches assume non-Christian rather than post-Christian.

It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission.

But I'm not sitting around praying for revival either. I grew up in the "pray for revival" culture.

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

La Historia y la morcilla de mi tierra: se hacen las dos con sangre, se repiten.

Ugarit ... in contrast to later Canaanite languages, there is no article.

Palestino-Tiberian tradition ... Ashkenazi opted for it, although they also introduced significant modifications.

The Tiberian system became more and more dominant until it completely ousted its Palestino-Tiberian counterpart around the middle of the fourteenth century.

Palmyrene and Nabataean dialects, which use an Aramaic script ... in the opinion of some experts might really be dialects of Arabic.

The nature of the data we possess suggests we value each and every tradition rather than creating a dichotomy between the normative tradition and the others.

The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.

It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.

The inscription of King Mar'alqais , found south of Damascus and dated at 328 CE, is usually said to be the first document in Arabic.