Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual. — Evelyn Underhill 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
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
“Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.” — Nancy Holmes Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I… — Ozwald Boateng Copy Share Image
“What is more important than the meal? Doesn’t the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The… — Starhawk 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
We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards.… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how each one of us sees ourselves in the band, but we're being part of this ritual of identity… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a… — Dally Messenger Copy Share Image
“Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“If the “Cartesian moment” is that moment when as Francis Barker has asserted the self can be conceived of without the body,… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me… — Miroslav Penkov 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
There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
“It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.” — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
