Incantation Quotes

#1. must have looked forsaken standing there because she clucked her tongue against the roof of her mouth and said, "Poor Miss Sarah." I did so despise the attachment of Poor to my name. Binah had been muttering Poor Miss Sarah like an incantation since I was four.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

Michael Ayrton

#3. You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first?

Kevin Hearne

#4. Cole Thomas.'
The name, like an incantation, was on her lips.

Danika Stone

#5. I can show you a philtre, compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch's incantation: 'If you want to be loved, love.

Seneca.

#6. Olden days cannot be reversed even with the strongest incantation, but fresh days could be invoked to be fruitful in order to stop old fruitless years

Michael Bassey Johnson

#7. I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.

Francesca Lia Block

#8. In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is the side opposite the right angle". A sentence that later flabbergasted the inhabitants of el Idilio, who took it to be a wird tongue twister or a mysterious incantation".

Luis Sepulveda

#9. Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond

Gregory A. Boyd

#10. In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse

Robert Herrick

#11. The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

Mary Ruefle

#12. She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time."
An incantation.

Jennifer McMahon

#13. Give the incantation, and b) describe the wand movement required to make objects fly. . .

J.K. Rowling

#14. Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemised words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.

China Mieville

#15. Let's get my incantation right:
"I wish I may, I wish I might"
Give earth another satellite.

Robert Frost

#16. [Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

Elizabeth Hand

#17. The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

Dan Simmons

#18. I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

Michael Carbonaro

#19. Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#20. Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

Alice McDermott

#21. As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.

Alice Hoffman

#22. My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.

Joyelle McSweeney

#23. It was fear that first made the gods25 - fear of hidden forces in the earth, rivers, oceans, trees, winds, and sky. Religion became the propitiatory worship of these forces through offerings, sacrifice, incantation, and prayer.

Will Durant

#24. She said, "I love you, Con," because whatever Jakob believed about those three words, they still mattered to Harper. They were as close to an incantation as any she knew, had power other words lacked. "I'll

Joe Hill

#25. Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator.

Rawi Hage

#26. The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

Bill Hybels

#27. IMITATION CITRUS FLAVORED DIETARY ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED CARBONATED BEVERAGE. That, I submit, is not a label; it is an incantation. Someday, it should be set to a suitable plainsong tune or Anglican chant.

Robert Farrar Capon

#28. I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Christopher Hitchens

#29. an incantation of hatred.

William Golding

#30. Let my sight end. Let the dark tides of Nyx ebb away beneath the white sands of null. Let our pale mother spread once more!

H.S. Crow

#31. One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. Chipmunks jump, and
greensnakes slither.
Rather burst than
not be with her.
Bluebirds fight, but
bears are stronger.
We've got fifty
years or longer.
Hoptoads hop, but
hogs are fatter.
Nothing else but
Us can matter.

Donald Hall

#33. There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

Philip K. Dick