"We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture."

-- C. Loring Brace

#Impact Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Culture Quotes

“David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet”
“It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.”
“Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!”
“As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.406
“I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.”
“I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.”

Source : "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
“I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.”
“Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.”

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