Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals… — David Karp Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Rites and rituals open hearts and clear minds. They help us embody reverence and allow us to get in touch with our… — Ahriana Platten Copy Share Image
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I've been doing this new ritual where the first thing I do in the morning is put a tablespoon of coconut oil… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative…A lot of habitually creative people have preparation… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Ritual abuse is highly organised and, obviously, secretive. It is often linked with other major crimes such as child pornography, child prostitution,… — Laurie Matthew 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
“Tarot is a lyrical language of the soul's encounter with the Universe. It arises freely, and like the most dignified dance, allows… — Marcus Katz Copy Share Image
I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go… — Wayne Hussey Copy Share Image
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In an article offering a law enforcement perspective on allegations of ritual abuse, Lanning (1992, A law-enforcement perspective on allegations of ritual… — Susan E. Devine David A. Sakheim Copy Share Image
“Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
When we travel for research our strategy is to simply move from kitchen to kitchen. It's truly a wonderful way to travel… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead.… — Ana Paula Maia Copy Share Image
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
