#ceremony

We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can. ↗

— Koushun Takami

#government #harmony #tea-ceremony #art

I was honored at the awards ceremony. I didn’t get any recognition, but I was honored to be there. (Tickets were cheaper than I imagined!)
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— Jarod Kintz

#awards #buy #ceremony #cheap #cheaper

Together they will spend a happy hour seated side by side..., while Ivy's tender hand guides Duffy's as he traces out laboriously, in pencil, over and over until he has them off pat, the magic letters of his name. More than the wedding itself, that little ceremony there under the lamp, all silent save for the soft scratching of graphite on paper, will mark the true beginning of their life together. ↗

— John Banville

#letters #love #wedding #love

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants. ↗

— Vera Wang

#ceremony #certain #even #involves #more

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#article #awards #bit #ceremony #completely

When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. ↗

— Eric Massa

#america #bill #cap-and-trade #ceremony #chief

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#i #important #like #marriages #me

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#buddhism #buddhist #ceremony #confirmed #disappointed

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#ceremony #crowd #huge #i #middle