Cultural Associations Quotes

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.

When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'

These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

Wrestling and horror just sort of go together.