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It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
I'm a big coffee drinker, and I like the ritual of using a French press - plus it makes great coffee.
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
I have grown up in a small city where watching TV is a ritual and Balaji has defined TV in so many ways.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual.
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.
On a day I start, I have a turkey sandwich for lunch. I don't consider it a ritual, but I'm anxious on those days.
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.
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
I don't want to have a big wedding. I don't crave that ritual of dress fittings, party planning and all eyes being on you.
Our parents were very prim and proper, but we always got one toy every day. That was a ritual. The money didn't really matter.
The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.
My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
As part of the ritual of becoming a man, my maternal uncle, a judge, and his four sons, each older than me, took me deer hunting.
When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.
I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my family and friends.
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
With ritual, I punctuate my days till they no longer belong to who I am today but to who I'll be when I look back in days and years to come.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times. It's a way of protesting.
I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.
Women are suspicious of this male ritual of the bachelor party and are suspicious of what men do and say when they are not being watched by them.
For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
Every year during Dhanteras, we buy jewellery either for me or my mom, from our jeweller. It's been a ritual which we have been following for years.
That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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.
When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me.