Top 84 Quotes About Conjuring
#1. Now that I'm a professional writer it's a little more difficult to enjoy a movie if it's not well done and a lot of the horror movies are not great, but when something's really good, like I really loved The Conjuring. That just scared the bejesus out of me.
#2. Owever she was a woman and I'd have more luck conjuring up the thoughts of a chinaman than I would figuring out what she was conspiring
#3. The voice was Clary's. He would know it from anywhere. He wondered if his mind was conjuring it up now, a sense memory of what he'd most loved during his life to carry him through the process of death. Simon, you stupid idiot! I'm over here! At the window!
#4. Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
#5. if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy.
#6. Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.
#7. As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.
#8. A lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
#9. We need to find you a man. You're conjuring Cinderfellas.
#10. The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed
the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
#11. Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
#12. There is something universally chilling about a new plot. And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a story to bloom in his mind, because at any age what comes before sight is a conjuring. A trope, which is just a way to believe.
#13. I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.
#14. Just like conjuring up a spell, or harnessing wolf instincts, wielding demonic power came as naturally to me as committing misdemeanors.
#15. Language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.
#16. Helen didn't yet understand that conjuring up the future was the duty of the living, what they owed to the dead.
#17. The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)
#18. All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.
#19. He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.
#20. Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?
#21. There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.
#22. If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?
#23. Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own, When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.
#24. 'The Conjuring' is incredibly effective and scary without the use of blood, gore, and death. It's a horror film that emphasizes atmosphere and suspense in the tradition of classics like 'Psycho' or 'The Others.'
#25. Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.
#26. And thus they built a stage on which to showcase their conjuring - and also to refine it.
#27. Nature is the discipline on which all intelligence is based. Why ever would its understanding, a two-fold dynamic, be based not on reactionary actions, but on the conjuring of time-timelessness and non-reactionary backward spans?
#28. So cute how you called out for Damen after conjuring that chaste little love scene in your head.
#29. This is music's most spectacular conjuring trick. Far from dying, it is in a perpetual state of rebirth.
#30. I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
#31. Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
#32. [Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
#33. All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
#34. Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.
#35. It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who still look like they're in the '60s.
#36. One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
#37. When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
#38. Honest folks, born and bred in a visible manner, were mostly not overwise or clever _ at least, not beyond such a matter as knowing the signs of the weather; and the process by which rapidity and dexterity of any kind were acquired was so wholly hidden, that they partook of the nature of conjuring.
#39. I'm conjuring up a little fuck you."
-Hannah Rat Queens Vol 1
#40. Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.
#41. I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones
#42. But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
#43. The jet switched everything, one setting gone and the other there, like a conjuring act. This disorienting and instantaneous change of scene made places seem like channels on TV.
#44. As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.
#45. I choose what to remember, and I am choosing Rhiannon. Again and again, I am choosing her, I am conjuring her, because to let go for an instant will allow her to disappear.
#46. "It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over - and not the faintest clue how it's done. The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring trick, it's a miracle," ...
#47. When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.
#48. Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.
#49. And history felt like a conjuring trick. All of this had been in plain view the entire time, but only now did the magician allow Joey to see it all.
#50. Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions ...
#51. Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.
#52. I bring the petals to my nose and breathe deeply. "Where did it come from?"
Seth smiles. "A garden."
"A garden?" I repeat, raising an eyebrow.
He laughs.
"You think you're so clever," I mutter. "It must be nice, conjuring up whatever you want whenever you want it."
"It has it's perks.
#53. Gallimard: You have to do what I say! I'm conjuring you up in my mind!
Song: Rene, I've never done what you've said. Why should it be any different in your mind?
#54. Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him
#55. He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.
#56. He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
#57. We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.
#58. Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart
#59. But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.
#60. I invoked you, bribing Fate to produce you.
Were you conjuring me? I had no idea
How I was becoming necessary,
Or what emergency surgery Fate would make
Of my casual self-service.
#61. What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic
of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever.
#62. Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.
#63. Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
#64. People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.
#65. Some days, it's not about passion and courage. It's not about heroism and drama. It's not about slaying dragons or conjuring exotic visions... Some days, it's simply about the delicious act of doing simple things, simply.
#66. No one suffers as beautifully as you do.
#67. If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.
#68. Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.
#69. A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.
#70. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.
#71. First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.
#72. One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you.
#73. Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.
#74. As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.
#75. Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.
#76. The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.
#77. Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.
#78. A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.
#79. Magician is the best storyteller in the world.
#80. Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.
#81. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.
#82. Names have power.
#83. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.
#84. Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
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