Shanghai/culture/fashion

Famous quotes containing the words shanghai, culture and/or fashion:

    “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
    —Jules Furthman (1888–1960)

    “Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)