Myerhoff Quotes & Sayings

[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things. — Barbara Myerhoff

Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch's will? - weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember — Sophocles

Everyone has choices. You make them and then you live with the consequences. — David Baldacci

Mini cat poem for ISF kids:
William went high
Into the air
Furly had stepped
On the edge of
The board — Debby Feo

Want to copy my stellar notes?" Cooper asked, scooting his desk closer.
Glancing at his notes, I shrugged. "You do have very nice penmanship. Dainty even."
"Bitch."
"Jackass."
"Gorgeous."
"Stud."
"You have no idea. — Bijou Hunter

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others. — Masaru Ibuka

And so Yorick did not become a good citizen, but a Hamlet, a fool. — Gunter Grass

Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas. — Peter Stafford

The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal. — Games Workshop

Battle is a hard business, sister. Soft training will make for soft soldiers, who will in turn become soft corpses. — Anthony Ryan

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself. — Barbara Myerhoff

Sometimes my life felt so small. And I had to wonder why those of us who were given small lives, still had to feel pain so big. It hardly seemed fair. — Mia Sheridan

The self is made, not given — Barbara Myerhoff

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions. — Barbara Myerhoff

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks ... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. — Emil Nolde

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive. — Jodie Foster

We all have our own closets to come out of. — Judith Light

We write our own destiny;
we become what we do. — Soong May-ling

I started writing when I was about thirteen. — Al Purdy