Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists?… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,… — Lionel Trilling 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
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon. — Stephen King 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
“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow,… — Paula Gunn Allen 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
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I love the entire ritual of getting dressed. When we do a fashion show, we try to send out a message; we… — Marc Jacobs 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
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
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