Cluture Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Kaif is the Hema Malini of the current generation — Subhash K. Jha

The girl looked at the mess she had made, at the ax, the shattered immortal, and the gouts of dark blood all around, and vomited. — Tamora Pierce

The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough. — Wentworth Miller

Thought makes everything fit for use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai. — Zia Haider Rahman

Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul. — James Hillman

For the great eras in the history of the development of all the arts have been eras not of increased feeling or enthusiasm in feeling for art, but of new technical improvements primarily and specially. The discovery of marble quarries in the purple ravines of Pentelicus and on the little low-lying hills of the island of Paros gave to the Greeks the opportunity for that intensified vitality of action, that more sensuous and simple humanism, to which the Egyptian sculptor working laboriously in the hard porphyry and rose-coloured granite of the desert could not attain. The splendour of the Venetian school began with the introduction of the new oil medium for painting. The progress in modern music has been due to the invention of new instruments entirely, and in no way to an increased consciousness on the part of the musician of any wider social aim. — Oscar Wilde

The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness. — Alan Pauls

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture. — Tilar J. Mazzeo

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties. — Stanley Hoffmann