Quotes About Subculture

There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you just aren't meant to be.

Vegetarianism and Zen Buddhism, meditation and spirituality, acid and rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era.

Following the lead of other phone phreaks such as Captain Crunch, they gave themselves handles. Wozniak became "Berkeley Blue," Jobs was "Oaf Tobark.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible right-wing Nazi thing—violent, racist, and against everything good in life.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.

The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

I am strangely attracted to the hooligan crowd. I find them actually less dangerous than some of the people I work with now in Hollywood.

I agree with Ru that it'll never be mainstream, because mainstream means everybody knows it, everybody loves it, everybody accepts it. That's never gonna happen with drag, but it's definitely become more mainstreamed for people that never knew anything about it, being opened up to it as a form of art.

I was a huge Operation Ivy fan.

When our students accept the call of a servant leader to further the cause of Christ, it is time to begin considering how they can escape the strictly Christian subculture in order to shine their lights of truth into the dark places in our world. This will take great care and wisdom.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. The

I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful.

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.

Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

A subculture may possess a very rich intellectual and religious tradition. (...) The Jews have everywhere exerted a considerable cultural influence (...). And since they have often occupied key positions in the dominant cultures - as government officials, court physicians, bankers and merchants, scholars, and men of letters - their influence has been out of all proportion to their numbers.

It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

Every underground scene dies a long slow death as the tourists close in, until nothing's left but posers ogling each other over the bleached remains. If

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.