“ Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time... I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 742
“ I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 2.5K
“ In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
- 827
“ The last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
- 962
“ It is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two. ”
- Lord Dunsany- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy - a pregnant woman. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 115
“ Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil,Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians. ”
- Alan Moore- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them; for the witches themselves are imaginative; and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 162
“ Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me… ”
- James P. Hogan- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights. ”
- Helena Bonham Carter- Copy
- 172
“ Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism,... I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs. ”
- Lance Armstrong- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word! ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. ”
- Yoko Ono- Copy
- 1.9K
“ My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ”
- Roberto Benigni- Copy
- 3K
“ The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed. ”
- Gil Bailie- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality… ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians… all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 1K
“ My grandfather, who was Shawnee, was a shaman, who taught me the old ways. ”
- Jim Morris- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 128
“ The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. ”
- Leslie Caron- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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