All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke…

“Where you've nothing else, construct ceremonies out of the air, and breathe upon them.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”

— Cormac McCarthy

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

— Cormac McCarthy

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song…

— Giuseppe Verdi

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand…

— Lord Chesterfield

We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes…

— Danny Boyle

“I smiled ruefully to myself, knowing I had already experienced a far greater and deeper union with this man than that which propriety was…

— Persia Woolley

I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice…

— Simon Bird

I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years.

— Paul O'Grady

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning…

— Michael Schultz

I don't like weddings. I don't like ceremonies, and I show up wearing whatever the hell I want, if I go at all.

— Julio Torres

I don't like award ceremonies.

— King Diamond

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the…

— Ethan A. Hitchcock