My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely,… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when… — Ariane Mnouchkine Copy Share Image
“Witches do not need to fix problems. Witches fix the enegery AROUND problems. Then the problems fix themselves.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when… — Ariane Mnouchkine Copy Share Image
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When we travel for research our strategy is to simply move from kitchen to kitchen. It's truly a wonderful way to travel… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
“I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
As humans we need to bond and we need ritual - and that's what catchphrases represent. — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“this ritual requires you to take daily, incremental action to build your character.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
“I felt fresh and ready for anything. Well, except for maybe a sacrificial ritual, but no one was ever ready for that.” — Deanna Chase Copy Share Image
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image