Cultural Curious Gifts

'If you're going to stare at that thing all day, at least watch something educational,,, like Japan,'

"Oh no, Professor Enriquez, you misunderstood... When my brother said he was on a vegetarian diet, he meant he only eats vegetarians!"

'Local or Express?'

Louis Armstrong

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Great Chinese Dynasties

Omara Portuondo

World Tour.

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

"Will you have a Sphinx?"

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

'Are you sure this is authentic ancient Indian art?'

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

"Biff's old money, Angelo is new money and Boris is funny money."

"Yeah, I know. bu tthe administration didn't want to appear culturally insensitive."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

"Please hold applause until end of dragon."

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

Birthday Cakes: From Around the World

Introducing Piza Island.

Creation of Red Wine

'Our goal is to stress di-versity while remaining a uni-versity.'

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'

"Then what happened?"

"How the hell is that supposed to feed us?"

How did you get your parents to send you to Costa Rica this summer, Ingrid? By almost flunking Spanish. That's dire. Hardly! I'll party and practice my accent. Next year�remind me to bring my French grade down. Si!

Zora Neale Hurston

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

'Who's the new guy?'

Museum. Hours. You're donating your collection of pre-Columbian art? Yes! What's Mayan is yours!

The Cremaster Cycle

"By 'genius' do they mean the artist or the marketing department?"