Ceremony Quotes

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?

That after the President shall be seated in his Chair and the Vice-President, Senators and Representatives shall be again seated, the Vice-President shall announce to the President that the members of both Houses will attend him to be present at his taking the Oath of Office required by the Constitution. To the end that the Oath of Office may be administered to the President in the most public manner, and that the greatest number of the people of the United States and without distinction, may be witnesses to the solemnity, that therefore the Oath be administered in the outer Gallery adjoining to the Senate Chamber.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

Waving to the Queen after singing Amazing Grace at Buckingham Palace, that was pretty cool.

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.

You mustn't upstage the bride.

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

The monarchy is a labor-intensive industry.

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

The Regulars are coming out!

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble

When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

The more simple, the more republican we are in our manners, the more rational dignity we shall acquire.

Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

Tyrese was my best man at my wedding.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.