“I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.” BelieveStillsHardCharacterRealityCareCultureI BelieveMissingReadyWavePopsSatirePop CultureCommentary Author:Zack Snyder
“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.” MenWorldTryingMayDoeHas BeensMadeIdeasUseLightCultureWinningLevelsKnownClassTaughtReadyJudgmentBoundsCurrentsAtmosphereInferiorsSweetnessSects Author:Matthew Arnold
“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.” GivingMindHumansMomentsLastsAmericaPastFormSpiritValuesCultureGivenWishRealizingHistoryMankindReadyHighestAbsolutesDenyConsiderationPresent MomentSquaresWorthlessHuman SpiritValue Of LifeEvasion Author:Johan Huizinga
“The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.” PeopleWorldShouldCulturePoorTeachSunReadySellsHungry Author:Aubrey Menen
“I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward.” FeelsCountryDreamMovingCultureCenturyReadyProfessors Author:Christopher Bollen