“ It is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two. ”
- Lord Dunsany- Copy
- 3.8K
“ In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
- 4K
“ I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. ”
- Edward Steichen- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy - a pregnant woman. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 469
“ 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
- 314
“ 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
- 1.8K
“ 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
- 3.4K
“ A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 900
“ Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
- 233
“ Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil,Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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
- 95
“ 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
- 2.8K
“ 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
- 2.8K
“ 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
- 2K
“ It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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
- 40
“ 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
- 845
“ 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
“ When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 2K
“ 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
- 2.9K
“ The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine. ”
- Starhawk- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement. ”
- Marisa Tomei- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. ”
- Barbara Tuchman- Copy
- 3K
“ He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 3.7K
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