Quotes About Culture

Men in makeup, obviously, is a very new concept. It has not been widely accepted in the past.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

Baahubali... ' has been accepted widely amongst Hindi cinema-goers. So this shows that language is becoming less important.

Stereotypical and hurtful tropes about Jews are widely accepted in the African American community.

In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.

Bengal's indigenous art and craft is widely popular throughout the world.

In film lyrics, I avoid Persianised words because they are not widely understood.

It is widely believed that no one can love you in the same degree as your mother and there is this general perception that Indian men are Mama's Boys.

Sports has always been a great entry point for us to discuss issues that are pretty widely known in society.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

I first visited Buenos Aires at the end of 2015 while filming the latest series of 'Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways', and I liked it so much I've been back twice with my wife. It's so much nicer than I expected - like a warmer, bigger, wider version of Paris.

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.