Great Anthropology Quotes

#1. Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.

S. Kelley Harrell

#2. These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.

David Wishart

#3. I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

Alan Furst

#4. Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.

B.B. Free

#5. The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

Robert Greenwald

#6. You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Marion Cotillard

#7. The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. It's hard to get concert tickets.

John Hawkes

#9. one leg crossed nonchalantly over the other.

David McCullough

#10. I had one rule: respect. For me, my family, and for my friends ... It might sound hypocritical to the women that have passed through my apartment door, but if they carried themselves with respect, I would have given it to them.

Jamie McGuire

#11. If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

William Jennings Bryan

#12. I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

Caroline Wozniacki

#13. Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying.
Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.

Seanan McGuire

#14. I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

Audrey Tautou

#15. Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.

Toba Beta

#16. The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for reporters. In Ottawa, there is no such daily access. The media doesn't demand it, and as a result, major powerbrokers remain virtually anonymous.

Lawrence Martin

#17. Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

Clifford Geertz

#18. Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

H.G.Wells

#19. Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.

Lorraine Hansberry