Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
…the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
“Yes, this sudden transmutation in the order of things seems to enhance our pleasure, as if consecrating the unchanging nature of a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Using the context and stuff of our daily lives to create an atmosphere of comfort prepares the ground for moments of unexpected… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives and deaths to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
“Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning… — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
To criticize one's country is to do it a service… Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I was deliciously happy filming 'True Blood.' I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that… — Florence King Copy Share Image
![“To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and…” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8f8/don-delillo-294_after-death_to-plot-is-to-live-we-start-out-lives-in_1610967.jpg)
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