A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church? — Chuck Panozzo Copy Share Image
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
My ritual it's kind of an involuntary ritual. I lie awake the night before, worrying about award ceremony. Try and think of… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive,… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world.… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Lord Raziel. Surely yoy would not have allowed such a thing as a ritual by wich you might be summoned to exist… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders,… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I participated in many different rituals, but for me, I'm very spiritual and I believe that there's definitely be a greater force… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
