I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual…

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 you went…

— Ariane Mnouchkine

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and…

— Uta Hagen

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage,…

— Uta Hagen

“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's…

— Iyanla Vanzant

MARRIAGE CEREMONY, a ritual which should be written (o cut down on divorces) -- by adding a line to the groom's questions asking: And…

— Nikhil Saluja

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is…

— David Icke

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual…

— Terry Pratchett

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the…

— Rob Sheffield

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking…

— Ralph Ellison

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion.…

— E. O. Wilson

If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or…

— Eliza Griswold

One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But…

— Richard Bach

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky