Quotes About Amulets

#1. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. Lately I'd begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.

Kim Harrison

#3. Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits, washing every morning in cold water and, well ... mostly she believed in Granny Weatherwax.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten.

St. Vincent

#5. In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching.

Francesca Lia Block

#6. You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.

Edwidge Danticat

#7. The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

Frank Scoblete

#8. Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

Hippocrates

#9. Girls with poison necklaces
to save themselves from torture.
Just as women wear amulets
which hold their rolled up fortunes
transcribed on ola leaf.

Michael Ondaatje

#10. The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

Bill Vaughan

#11. A man always looks good in a dark suit.

Greg Kinnear

#12. It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.

Steve Jobs

#13. Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?

Sam Ewing

#14. The road to freedom is a beautiful system

Phil Jackson

#15. Ricky tasted something he hadn't experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity. Somewhere

Clive Barker

#16. It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Wanda Sykes

#17. Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

Horace Mann

#18. If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#19. I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

Kanye West

#20. Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Duane Michals

#21. Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

Kathryn Bigelow

#22. Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.

Richard Engel

#23. The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

Jonathan Stroud