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
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga 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
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice'… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –” — Simona Panova 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
As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to… — Alma Luz Villanueva Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in… — Julius Streicher 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
