Quotes About Ritual

I prayed before fights. Especially just before I got in to the ring. But I'd also have my iPod on, Prodigy and Linkin Park ripping through my ears.

I always say a prayer before the blocks - it helps calm me down.

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.

I love prayer candles, and I use them often.

I read 'Preacher' once a year.

I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.

Before important games, I don't change my preparation.

I'm quite ritualistic about my preparation. I always shower before a show, even if I had one before leaving my flat.

When I prepare for a match, it's like work, even the way I have to shower and put on my makeup.

I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.

I'm really blessed. I love my job. Love going to work. I just love it. I love getting it, I love preparing for it. I love the whole process. I love the whole ritual. I'm really very lucky. Lucky girl.

When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.

Breakfast is a big deal. I love it.

When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can come and see the person. And her coffin was next to my room, so I used to go in and stand on a chair and look at her. You know, it's open coffin and stuff.

I tap my fingers and cheekbones before going on stage to calm down. But nerves are necessary; if you ever lose them, it's a bad sign.

The tarot is sacred.

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

Elizabeth Taylor taught me that if you do your hair and makeup first then take a hot bath right before you leave, it brings out your inner glow and takes away the powdery look from makeup. I do that right before every date.

There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.