It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“...young people...who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at… — Robert Englund 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
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane.… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
