145 Quotes About Pop-culture
- Author Trista Jordan
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As a makeup artist, I have learned to do mental cheerleading flips and cartwheels in mid-air. Statistics show cheerleading carries the highest rate of catastrophic injury in sports.
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- Author Seanan McGuire
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The mythology warped and twisted back along itself until Buffy Summers, the girl who once railed against the unfairness of being Chosen, looked at a squadron of girls who were just like she'd been and took away their right to Choose.
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- Author Carina Chocano
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Sometimes, it seems like popular media exists primarily to set impossible standards and then to shame people who don't try their hardest to meet them.
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- Author Derek Thompson
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It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that opens a door into a feeling of comfort, meaning, or familiarity. It is called an aesthetic aha.
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- Author Rod Dreher
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The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.
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- Author Grace Helbig
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Pop culture is just a rubik's cube of shit stacked on shit. And it's always turning and you can't figure it out. Ever. Unless you're a tiny Asian boy who can do it SO quickly! Where did this metaphore go? In Kim Kardashian's butt!
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- Author Nora Ephron
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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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- Author Jaron Lanier
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Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.
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- Author Caitlin Doughty
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I'm bringing body back.Returning corpses, but they're not intact.Kids, this is a Justin Timberlake reference. You're fine not knowing who that is.
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