Ritual Theatre Quotes & Sayings

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. — Montserrat Caballe

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown. — John Berger

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal can be consistently made from that remedy by those who were and still profess to be parties to it, but the appeal to the parties themselves having an authority above the Constitution or to the law of nature & of nature's God. — James Madison

Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different. — Rachel Naomi Remen

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone. — Allan Savory

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them. — Timothy Leary

Sanctification costs to the extent of an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. — Oswald Chambers

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everett-- "The amount of money I'm currently paying you to nanny the children should hold any and all annoyance you may think you feel for me at bay."
Millie-- "Even if you paid me twice what you are, I'd still get annoyed with you on a frequent basis."
Everett-- "I'm not paying you additional funds to keep your annoyance in check. — Jen Turano

The newest truth about truth lies in the truth that human truths can lie, when they are parts-of-the-truth.
Call them 'white-lies' or 'black-truths', they are both true and a lie. — Caesar J. B. Squitti

I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in. — Ariane Mnouchkine

When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor. — Saint Augustine

Curiosity urges you on-driving force. — John Dos Passos

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates