Ritual Quotes · Page 12

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

— Stephen King

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's…

— Beverly Sills

In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.

— Scott Cunningham

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a…

— Dar Williams

I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting…

— Bailey Chase

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

— T. S. Eliot

Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through…

— Brian Tracy

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

— David B. Coe

Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality…

— Iyanla Vanzant

To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are…

— Steve Coogan

Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you…

— Anandmurti Gurumaa

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I…

— Kelley Armstrong

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express…

— Chris Abani

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do”…

— Kathleen Norris

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

One ritual is that I don't speak to anyone before I write in the morning. I like to get to my desk…

— Luanne Rice

“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for…

— Tom Robbins

I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,…

— Richard Dawkins

When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only…

— Naoto Fukasawa

Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it…

— Margaret Atwood

Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology…

— PZ Myers

That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and…

— Aimee Bender

To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is…

— Michael Jackson

There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out…

— Grete Waitz

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

— J. L. Austin

“Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much conscious thought.”

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

“Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.”

— Neil Gaiman

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own…

— Amy Bloom

Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.

— Cynthia Heimel

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

— Benjamin Cardozo

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem.

— Greg Laurie

“Being a hermit involves a lot of what we would call routine tasks taken to an extreme, even the morning flush of…

— Steve Merrick

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

— Muriel Barbery

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

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

— Gina Gershon

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

— Edna Ferber

I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my…

— Ashley Roberts

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

— Chuck Panozzo