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Letter "T" » The Western
«New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.»
Author: Alan Brien
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
driver, journalistic, surliest, surly, taxi, taxis, Taxi Driver, The Western, waiters, Western
«Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.»
Author: Karen Allen
(Actress)
| Keywords:
an American, brazil, hemisphere, hemispheres, The Western, Western, western hemisphere
«Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
Babylon, flames, flow, hierarchies, hierarchy of, idols, imperial, mystic, mystics, pagan, pagans, popular, popular culture, temple, Temple of, theater, The Imperial, The Western, Western, westerns
«A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
affluence, as such, Order of, pool, soothing, the West, The Western, uncontrollable, Western
«MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
English, indocile, mustang, nobleman, noblemen, plains, The American, The Western, Western, westerns
«Come, my friends,'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die.»
«I said I didn't respect religion . . . and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer. . . . So I don't respect our religions either. But I do believe it is a clash of civilizations, absolutely, between the Islamic world and the Western world. [It] has been going on for 1,000 years.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
clash, Islamic, Islamic World, tales, The Western
«Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
GNP, industrialize, industrialized, in and of itself, statement, The Western
«The Western mind is capable of believing in Jesus as the Son of God, at least on the part of some of the population, but seems unable or unwilling to grasp the concept of the Avatar as an incarnation of God.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
avatar, concept, incarnation, population, Son of, Son of God, the Incarnation, the Son, The Western, unwilling, Western
«Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
decades, History of the, replacing, sounded, The Social, The Western, Western
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