#cult

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#became #culture #guitar #icon #mostly

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #body #destroying #difficult #mind

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#anything #both #cowboys #culture #dominating

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ↗

— Henry Miller

#believes #cut #difficult #easiest #everything

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#age #change #culture #feel #i

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#also #asked #associate #because #difficult

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

#become #cultivation #ennobling #good #i

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#among #analysis #anyone #clear #consciously

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly. ↗

— Jean Moulin

#constantly #delicate #difficulties #increase #more