Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity… — George Dana Boardman Pepper Copy Share Image
What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity. — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
Regularity in Nature is not proof of the control of Nature by a Divine intelligence; it is rather the reverse. If something-… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity,… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks?… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image