Quotes About Acculturation

#1. Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Joshua Cohen

#2. In Japan if you say "the war," people know you mean World War II, because that was the last one that Japan fought in. In America it's different. America is constantly fighting wars all over the place, so you have to be more specific.

Ruth Ozeki

#3. DNA to me was some sort of magical element, some glowing goo that was always getting people out of prison

Gillian Flynn

#4. She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.

Bill Bryson

#5. There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

Bram Stoker

#8. He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within them.

Victor Hugo

#9. Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.

Georgette Heyer

#10. An exchange student from Afghanistan "finds himself in the midst of America's circus of self-invention" as he experiences Halloween for the first time. His hosts bauble, "It's the greatest of holidays when you can become anything you want.

Ron Suskind

#11. Many students go through "imposter syndrome" as they try to assimilate into a professional culture.

Claude M. Steele

#12. The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

Jim Bouton

#13. Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.

Jon Favreau

#14. I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

Richard Tuttle

#15. Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

Harold Bloom

#16. A young and clueless second-lieutenant straight out of the factory, I was very much surplus to the requirements.

Patrick Hennessey

#17. Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

Jonathan V. Last

#18. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

#19. She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

Sherry Turkle

#20. Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

Dan Jones

#21. Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

Jesse L. Martin

#22. What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker's cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz's moral purpose (building an integrated self).

David Brooks

#23. I have nothing to do today except to feel the joy of life and be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.

Maureen Corrigan

#25. there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology.

Maya Angelou

#26. Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

Peter Heather

#27. Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

John Kasich