Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
Jet Li

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
Mitch Albom

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
Mitch Albom

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom Wolfe

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
Anna Quindlen

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
Anthony Bourdain

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.
Kathy Acker

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
Amy Tan

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
Aisha Tyler

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
Penn Jillette

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Al Franken

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
Chuck Klosterman

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Muhammad Iqbal

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
Zinedine Zidane

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
John Walters