Ritual Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (R) Quotes

(on picking up his new hobby) Boxing is fascinating. It`s good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I`m a big cheese, but you don`t feel like that when you`re in the ring with a chap who knows what he`s doing. It`s ritual humiliation. I`m going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

- Hugh Laurie

I was beginning to feel I just didn`t want to go through another 10 years of living in hotels, making three or four movies a year. I long for the ritual of theater. I adore it. And I want to do plays that challenge me.

- Kevin Spacey

I prefer to keep my hair short - very short. I also like having a good amount of facial hair. But unfortunately, Lucas cannot have a beard. At the end of the season, hacking off the hair is my ritual. It all goes! - On why he always looks so different when he`s not filming OTH.

- Chad Michael Murray

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

- Kiefer Sutherland

After I`m finished playing a part, it`s almost like a ritual kind of thing. I`ve brought them to life, they`ve had their time. And now it`s time for them to go back in...in whatever way they do. Then I go on with my life.

- Lili Taylor

I love to cook comfort food. I`ll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

- Reese Witherspoon

But, you know, they don`t enjoy the dinner hour together. It`s just not as much of a ritual at night and it`s interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

- Katie Couric

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

- Lexa Doig

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

- Camille Paglia

We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that`s been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.

- Laura Bush

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

- Suzanne Vega

I wasn`t losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

- Picabo Street

I fell in love with the whole ritual. The lights going down, the curtain going up, telling a story to a large group of people in the dark. It was one of those moments where you think, `I can do that.` You`re in control on stage. And I love telling the whole story in one fell swoop. With movies, you never think, `I nailed it.` In theater you get to go back and do it again, which to me is much more satisfying.

- Nathan Lane

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year`s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

- Joan Jett

I don`t have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

- Kelly Jones

The problem is, we fear negative consequences a lot more than we value positive ones. What happens to an athlete is that if he wore a particular sock, or pair of shirts, or did some ritual, and had success, he`ll continue to do that. That act reduces the anxiety associated with not doing it. It`s the exact same mechanism, clinically, we find in obsessive-compulsive people.

- Ron Smith

It was our ritual, every Friday night for years.

- Kevin Murray

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

- William Greider

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

- Aaron Parrish

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

- Alain Corre

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

- Alvin Franco

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

- Ann Kuehling

No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder. Anyone who does is not a Witch, but a psychopath.

- Ann Kuehling

It misleads the public, it misleads Congress, and it`s part of their annual ritual of underestimating the need and overestimating the expenses.

- Anoush Ehteshami

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man

- Bernard Berenson

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

- Eric Zorn

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

- Philip Andrew Adams

On the secrecy behind his nightly monologue: "It`s always been a ritual with me. I don`t show it to Freddie (executive producer Frederick De Cordova) or Ed (sidekick Ed McMahon) or anybody. If you don`t show it to anybody, then you get fresh reactions."

- Johnny Carson