BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal 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
Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting. — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I never watched a Heisman ceremony when I was a kid. I didn't even know it was held at the Downtown Athletic… — Carson Palmer Copy Share Image
“Princess Anlei to the newly knighted Lord Knight Corann: "A princess does not need to rush into the fray like some …starving… — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
The night before the Olympics opening ceremony, my son, who is eight years old, gets very excited and likes to put out… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly… — William Cowper 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
Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. — Stanislav Grof 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
I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think… — John Hench 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
It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
