Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.
The Hollywood tradition I like best is called “sucking up to the stars.
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfoodwholefood dichotomy.
It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health of a civilization, particularly if they thwart the interest of a people in culture, and following Aristotle , the cathartic effects of culture. "It is written but I say unto you" is a powerful directive to Western civilization.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.
The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.
Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.