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Shrines Quotes - Page 2

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Elizabeth Hardwick
Art, Shrines, Art Is
Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

Edwin Markham
Fear, School, Shrines

If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don't think, 'I'll have a few pints. I'll piss up this shrine.'

Ozzy Osbourne
Thinking, Shrines, Drink
Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Nicholson Baker
Wikipedia, Shrines, Altruism
Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

Margaret Atwood
Shrines, Littles, Empty
Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.82, Anchor

The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

Lewis H. Lapham
Sacrifice, Self, Shrines

Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

Charlotte Armstrong
Shrines, Enough, Solemn

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

Antoine Fuqua
Asking, Shrines, Bullets

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