Cultural Formation Quotes

#1. If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.

Philip Auslander

#2. Anna's spiritual formation was relegated to cultural expressions of faith: the Christmas Baby Jesus and his gifts, the Easter risen Christ and his chocolate bunnies, and a copy of The Thorn Birds pulled from her mother's bookshelf.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#3. America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Stanley Hauerwas

#4. For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

Naomi Wolf

#5. Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

Morgan Freeman

#6. Is it not enough to shine,
To know that friends are true?
That love is born of friendship,
And who you are is you?

Frederic M. Perrin

#7. We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue ... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].

Matthew Simmons

#8. In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

C.S. Lewis

#9. My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

Edward Hirsch