Barbara Myerhoff Quotes

Ritual dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.

Barbara Myerhoff

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Samuel Johnson
- Death
- Equality
- Disease
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

Saint Basil
- Long
- May
- Fear
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Van Morrison
- Music
- American
- Name
Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

Osman Rashid
- Great
- Think
- Company
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

Tavi Gevinson
- People
- Time
- School
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

Carl Hiaasen
- Always
- Kid
- Ever