Rite Quotes

I didn`t look at the nudity and go, oh great. But it`s the same as doing a role with an accent or a particular affectation. You look at the character first. Lots of the actors that I`ve admired have at one stage or another taken their kit off. It`s a rite of passage. That iconic scene is the physical and emotional climax of the play. So if I do that with pants on, it would be crap.

I think it`s sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I`m not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

He has no time for book learning or pussy-footing about. He wants to show these young men and women what they`re up against - evil exists and they better know what they`re getting themselves into. He`s a one-man initiation ceremony, a walking rite-of-passage. He doesn`t believe in treading lightly with Harry or the other students because that won`t prepare them for the real world.

(The real stars of this book, however, are the poker pros. Craig, a player himself, clearly likes and admires them. Still, he explains how tenuous the lives of even the best players can be.) Every great poker player has run through their playing payroll, most of them many times, ... Going broke is both a rite of passage and a badge of honor, a reminder that they live life on the edge.

We needed this, it`s a rite of passage game, ... When you get through a game like this, it shows you what you`re about and shows you where you`re trying to go. ... At certain points, this is a journey. And it was a hell of a journey today.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

I see no reason why the Catholic Church shouldn`t reclaim its rights to this music in the context of a fully restored Roman rite.

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.