Top 12 Mummery Quotes
#1. Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
John Fiske
#2. Business of all kinds, over the centuries, had atrophied certain sense receptors and areas of the human brain, so that for most of the fellows taking part, the present-day rituals were no more, and even maybe a little less, than hollow mummery.
Thomas Pynchon
#4. Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
Eli Broad
#5. Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking.
Catherine Ponder
#6. People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can
just like mad dogs.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#7. We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.
Anne Heche
#8. I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.
Brad Grey
#9. Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. Was it two or one dead face? Would you notice that at last? We are together and alone, until the firm and angry blast.
J.M.K. Walkow
#12. Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
Laurie Colwin
