I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing. — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and… — Alex Majoli Copy Share Image
“You have brought with you (in this life) the ritual actions. The Knowledge (Gnan) part has to be done. Pure ritual is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It's part of my ritual to watch a new film every day, no matter what. It's important to me. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
People feel that you'll never be able to recreate the birthplace of a song that has, at its core, the hardship of… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to… — Susan Jacoby 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
Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“And the ritual of Prayer embraces all these movements: (a) There is the ascending, vertical movement which corre- sponds to the faithful's… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“I mention these ritual dances, this ritual drama, this bridge between art and life, because it is things like these that I… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
“In every religion there are three parts: philosophy, mythology, and ritual. Philosophy” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up… — Mark-Anthony Turnage Copy Share Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Being a hermit involves a lot of what we would call routine tasks taken to an extreme, even the morning flush of… — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking.… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
