Top 36 Quotes About Hocus Pocus
#1. There's always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.
Spike Lee
#2. That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.
L. M. Boyd
#3. Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger.
Andre Dirrell
#4. I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I'm a cat. (Ravyn)
I suppose it's a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. Want to lose weight? Kick a bad habit? Well you might want to try hypnosis! ... no longer regarded as mere hocus-pocus, it's been shown as an effective means of helping people quit smoking, shed pounds, reduce stress, and end phobias.
Jane Pauley
#6. I seem to remember there was some hocus-pocus with that one."
"You mean hanky-panky!" shouted Ruth. "There was hanky panky.
E. Lockhart
#7. The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
Charles Macklin
#8. Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.
Tupac Shakur
#9. The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.
John Steinbeck
#10. She would have said that love was hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant postration
Alice Munro
#11. Jiggery pokery!" said Harry in a fierce voice. "Hocus pocus - squiggly wiggly - "
"MUUUUUUM!" howled Dudley, "He's doing you know what!
J.K. Rowling
#12. If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
Lucretius
#14. Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows
Tupac Shakur
#15. Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.
Jack Canfield
#16. I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
Grandfather Wills , Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Magician, musician. Same thing. A little hocus pocus and a whole lot of faith, right?
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#18. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.
John Arbuthnot
#20. The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.
Anuj
#21. You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.
Rafael Cruz
#22. I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.
David
#23. I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.
Rush Limbaugh
#24. Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
Carl Lotus Becker
#25. Unfortunately, Susan was not the only one who noticed Ricky's eyes on her; Patty was growing increasingly frustrated by his failure to respond to her overtures, or the reason
Brianne E. Pryor
#26. I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
Lance Armstrong
#27. Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.
Adam Sandler
#28. I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
Kurt Vonnegut
#29. People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.
Mencius
#30. I was born in Swansea in the Principality of Wales in September 1934 and named Clive William John Granger. The 'William John' names were traditional Granger boy's names, and my mother liked the name Clive because some popular musician at the time had it.
Clive Granger
#31. Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Kurt Vonnegut
#32. If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.
Leo Tolstoy
#33. What exquisite, or rather, what bovine crudity there is in their egoism, an egoism they simply cannot manage to perceive in themselves!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#34. She was thinking how it was the unfinished business. This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over. Everything was still going on. The business not only not finished but maybe not done well enough.
Lydia Davis
#35. Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#36. I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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