Quotes About Ritual

Every morning, after prayers, the pirate leader removed his black loincloth which was his only garb and bent over the poop in front of the altar while each of his men filed past him in devout silence, kissed his exposed arse and emitted a sharp bark of adulation while slapping his buttocks briefly with the flat of their blades.

The ritual of tea, Willow thought, is like a liturgy itself, comforting because it's so familiar.

The minute I enter my house or a hotel room on the road, wherever I am, the first thing I do is light a candle; that's my favourite thing.

Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.

I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we're shooting. You have breakfast on set.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Putin has this ritual of having the televised meetings with ministers. Cameras will be allowed in to film the first five minutes of a meeting that is conducted entirely for the cameras. We don't even know whether the meeting then goes on.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

I believe in not whistling backstage and not saying the name of the Scottish play.

I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.

The modern GOP has perfected this cyclical deficit outrage ritual. Republicans run up the tab when they control the White House, then scream about deficits when Democrats win - insisting that 'serious reform' means cutting only Democratic budget priorities.

The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Something we do every tour is to choose a song for the team CD that gets played in the dressing room prior to games.

My most prized possession is my coffeemaker!

Jane, Henry VIII's third wife, wasn't present at her son's christening, as ritual dictated she had to spend another month in bed. From her chamber she could have looked down on the christening procession below, and must have felt great pride.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

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.

In Romania it was normal that when you got a facial someone would tweeze your brows.

Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.

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.

Sometimes I'll make face masks at home, and it's fun. I love that. I've been doing it since I was a teenager.

Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.