Ritual Quotes

• The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.

  

  Kate Green
  • Preparation
  • Ritual

• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

  

  Walter Truett Anderson
  • People
  • American
  • Simple

• I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.

  

  Ed Robertson
  • Stage
  • Show
  • Ritual

• Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

  

  Miller Williams
  • Important
  • Tradition
  • Ritual

• I do love the idea of ritual.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Idea
  • Ritual

• I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go for a Cabernet or a Merlot. You're at the mercy of promoters who try to cut corners, so you don't always get the best wines in the world. But I look at the wine as being medicinal. It's not there to be enjoyed, it's part of my preparation for a show.

  

  Wayne Hussey
  • Cutting
  • Being
  • Preparation

• Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Virtues
  • Entropy
  • Pleasantries

• I don’t think we should give up on ritual. I don’t think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Ritual

• I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.

  

  Darrell Wallace Jr.
  • Song
  • Car
  • Ritual

• So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and there was this ritual we'd go through. And he would say, who's the greatest of them all? And we - the seven - would say, you are, oh, Great Santini. And he would say, who knows all, hears all and sees all? You do, oh, Great Santini. So this was the ridiculous way I was raised.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Children
  • Lines
  • Ridiculous

• How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Dark
  • Comfort
  • Times

• The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Gone
  • Ritual

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