Famous quotes containing the words purpose, cultural and/or cat:
“During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well knownit was used primarily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboys pony.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Thrice the brinded cat hath mewd.
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whind.
Harper cries: Tis time, tis time.
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poisond entrails throw.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)