Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans. — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. — Richard Leakey 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
What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the… — Roland Allen 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
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia 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
I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as… — Edgar Berman Copy Share Image
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich 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
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It… — Alice Bailey 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
Before I play a show, I put on lavender oil - it's sort of a ritual. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.” — David I. Kertzer Copy Share Image
