Quotes About Culture In The Joy Luck Club

#1. Think how our lives might be different if we became people with whom Christ could share the deep things of God. - Author: Beth Moore

#2. An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away. - Author: John Hockenberry

#3. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. - Author: Jerome K. Jerome

#4. I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core. - Author: Robert Pinsky

#5. Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen. - Author: James Alan Gardner

#6. It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. - Author: J. M. W. Turner

#7. No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you ... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment. - Author: Ronald Harwood

#8. Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is. - Author: Shia Labeouf

#9. All comparisons injure. - Author: Soren Kierkegaard

#10. Do not be defeated by the
Feeling that there is too much for you to know. That
is a myth of the oppressor. You are
Capable of understanding life. And it is yours alone.
And only this time. - Author: Kenneth Koch

#11. If a single person dies, the revolution has been lost. - Author: Marty Rubin

#12. I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen. - Author: Giles Duley

#13. I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. - Author: Cynthia Payne