When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in… — Ed O'Brien Copy Share Image
Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have… — Confucius Copy Share Image
For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. — Gemma Ward Copy Share Image
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are… — Ovid Copy Share Image
La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
