“The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures,…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Culture, like most human actions and interactions, exists as a constant, chaotic series of feedback loops.”— Eric Thurm, hazlitt.net
“Our enemies have made clear the danger they pose to our security and to the very essence of our culture...liberty. Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. Like all wars, this one will have its ups and downs. But we must fight. We must.”— John McCain, en.wikiquote.org
“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“We’ve been living in a world run by Afflecks for so long, will we even know ourselves when they’re gone?”— Naomi Fry, newyorker.com
“That’s the story of my life, honey. They want to suck the comedy out of me and then they want to detach.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“At first, we couldn’t be establishment, because we didn’t have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But as we became No. 1 in our industry, we’ve had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.”— Phil Knight, inc.com
“I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.”— Misha Collins, inspiringquotes.us
“From that day as a cute kid to this moment, he never gave up dreaming. It was that dream that changed culture all over the world.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“Every extension of mankind, especially technological extensions, has the effect of amputating or modifying some other extension[…] The extension of a technology like the automobile ‘amputates’ the need for a highly developed walking culture, which in turn causes cities and countries to develop in di…”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“Culture is the necessary art of perpetuating the disturbing rumor that reality is meaningful.”— Venkatesh Rao, amazon.com
“I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Our culture is so overwhelmed by the concept of females as sexual beings that whenever it comes to light, it is immediately seen as the only facet of a woman. It's perfectly fine for us to see women as sexual objects, but once she becomes a sexual subject, she can't be anything else. She can't be la…”— Isabella Milch, theodysseyonline.com
“Words and phrases like chakra, energy, and ‘I’m sorry I’m late, but Mercury is in retrograde’ are all major boner killers for me. But unfortunately, even in notoriously skeptical New York, it’s increasingly difficult to find someone who doesn’t believe that some magical cosmic force is dictating eve…”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com