#cult

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#irony #know #listen #our #saturated

Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture. ↗

— David Ortiz

#any #believe #country #culture #definitely

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

#culture #eager #human #human spirit #life

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems. ↗

— Chris Patten

#always #decide #difficult #problems #ripe

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#difficult #predict #reach #very #westerns

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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#been #central #changed #culture #director

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. ↗

— Petrarch

#difficult #how #ignorance #reputation #rocks

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ↗

— Max de Pree

#cultures #holds #leaders #listened #must

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture. ↗

— Robert Plant

#english #had #kids #many #white