I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs… — Darrell Wallace Jr Copy Share Image
My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home. — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.” — Bill Drummond Copy Share Image
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion.… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me,… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Taking off your shoes is a sacred ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“Ritual abuse is highly organised and, obviously, secretive. It is often linked with other major crimes such as child pornography, child prostitution,… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go… — Wayne Hussey Copy Share Image
“Tarot is a lyrical language of the soul's encounter with the Universe. It arises freely, and like the most dignified dance, allows… — Marcus Katz Copy Share Image
“In an article offering a law enforcement perspective on allegations of ritual abuse, Lanning (1992, A law-enforcement perspective on allegations of ritual… — Susan E. Devine David A. Sakheim Copy Share Image
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner Copy Share Image
“Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.” — Luis Gonçalves Copy Share Image
“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.” — Dimitris Xygalatas Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from… — Kajol Copy Share Image
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Hygge is a phenomenon that reflects our way of inhabiting the world. The routines that shape our days locate us - from… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases,… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
