In Popular Culture
- In art, 1000 paintings has been a popular internet art project by Swiss artist Sala
- A grand is a slang term for one thousand units of a given currency. Several grand can be shortened to Gs.
- Especially in the United States, the gambling community often refers to denominations of $1000 as dimes
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- According to an ancient Japanese legend, anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane.
- In the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life a doctor (John Cleese) is attempting to throw beer mats through the crooked arm of another (Graham Chapman). After the first beer mat is shown going through the crooked arm, the second doctor exclaims, "One thousand and eight!"
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“O, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“The anorexic prefigures this culture in rather a poetic fashion by trying to keep it at bay. He refuses lack. He says: I lack nothing, therefore I shall not eat. With the overweight person, it is the opposite: he refuses fullness, repletion. He says, I lack everything, so I will eat anything at all. The anorexic staves off lack by emptiness, the overweight person staves off fullness by excess. Both are homeopathic final solutions, solutions by extermination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)