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

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Just Because

• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Time
  • Never
  • Direction

• Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Peace
  • Issue
  • Palestine

• My dad dated a lot of supermodels.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Dad
  • Lot
  • Dated

• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Game
  • Man

• The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • See
  • Dogs

• All critics should be assassinated.

  

  Man Ray
  • Should
  • Critics

• Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Help
  • Attention

• Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Music
  • Dance

• Yeah, I've always been a big Chunky Soup guy. I'm digging all the new Chunky Maxx flavors, which are packed with protein. Specifically, the black angus beef.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Guy
  • Black

• In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Life
  • Music

• Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. The embryo becomes a baby; the baby is born; its lungs continue to breathe - not only were they created but then they continue to breathe. The heart is not only created but it continues to breathe. If there is injury and disease that becomes present within the body, the body is also equipped with an immune system to correct that.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Universe

• When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Up
  • Country
  • Job

• 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
  • Reality
  • Separate
  • Ritual