Sacred Canopy Quotes & Sayings

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness? — Frances Wright

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it. — Fergus Henderson

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially. — Tom Freston

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance? — Wallace Shawn

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more. — Akhmad Kadyrov

Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Boo: "Go talk to her."
Callum: "About what?"
Boo: "Anything."
Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"
Boo: "I do that."
Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong. — Maureen Johnson

Anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I've been writing this story; so it's hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land. — Stephen Vincent Benet

In all its manifestations, religion constitutes an immense projection of human meanings into the empty vastness of the universe-a projection, to be sure, which comes back as an alien reality to haunt its producers.' - p.100, 'The Sacred Canopy — Peter Berger

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world ... — Muddy Waters

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet. — Vincent Cassel

Recent works on the organization of advertising agencies in Britain and the US show that advertisers' self-understanding, expertise and practices are geared to the agencies' imperative for self-promotion in competitive markets (Cronin 2004; Soar 2000). Drawing on Bourdieu's observations on 'cultural intermediaries', Matthew Soar's (2000) research also shows that the first audience which advertising 'creatives' have in mind is themselves (see also Nixon 2003). — Roberta Sassatelli

Today we do not live under a sacred canopy; it is marketing that forms the backdrop of our culture. The message that advertising dins into our conscious and unconscious minds is that fulfillment derives from the things we possess. — Huston Smith

Success is living your essence." ~ Sharif Khan — Sharif Khan