There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
In defence, I have cultivated a death wish.
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