Quotes About Ritual

I get dressed in the same way. Its not a superstition, at least I tell myself its not. Its more a way of getting that brain in gear to do that same thing. I get in the car the same way. Even the guys who are strapping me in the car get their own brains ready to go to work.

I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on is the glasses.

I have routines but not superstitions.

It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

I used to have this superstition where I had to eat steak every night before I played, and my nutritionist told me don't do that. So after I lost that one, the other ones fell off pretty quickly.

When I perform, I wear white Capezio dance shoes. It's more of a superstition, but I only wear them when I perform and when I dance.

I am the superstitious kind: I never praise a shot because I fear the moment I do so, the batsman gets out.

Maybe I'm a bit superstitious, but I don't like to talk about anything until I've done it.

Before competition, I always take an ice bath to make my body feel more refreshed. Then I always have coffee with a little cream and sugar. It's a superstitious thing.

I get superstitious. I always have to have some form of potato, either chips or mashed potato or roast potatoes on a show day.

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

Chinese people have that superstitious fix - people always do feng shui when they are opening a shop; even the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank pays people to do feng shui for them.

I am not really superstitious - I get ready in the same order pretty much every day. I'm afraid I'm a bit boring like that.

Footballers are very superstitious.

Obviously I am Prateik Babbar but I would like to be called Prateik. I am superstitious; there is a spiritual reason why.

I'm kind of superstitious. If I miss a game or practice, I think I will play bad the next day.

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.

I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper felt like an announcement that I was home.

I take, like, 9,000 supplements every morning. I don't know if it's completely placebo or not, but I'm super committed to these supplements: like, I can't face the day without them.

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.

I like to make sure I eat as soon as the drivers meeting is over. Then I like to take at least a 15-minute nap or so before the race starts, just to kind of get refreshed. That's something I try to do every time.

Mia moglie ha l'abitudine di raccontarmi i suoi sogni quando si sveglia. Io le porto il caffè e un bicchiere di succo di frutta e mi siedo accanto al letto mentre lei si sveglia e si scosta i capelli dalla faccia. Ha la solita espressione di quando ci si sveglia, ma anche lo sguardo di chi torna da qualche parte.

the subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.