Quotes About Merlin

#1. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We

Merlin R. Carothers

#2. The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

Merlin Stone

#3. Morgause laughed as she mounted her horse with some help from a footman. "I see through your protests, Merlin. You are quite amorous of me, I know it." Merlin looked like he swallowed a frog. "Lady," he said. "Wise, old lady. Please depart lest I be forced to help you depart.

K.M. Shea

#4. The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Mary Stewart

#5. Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

Merlin Mann

#6. I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

R.S. Thomas

#7. Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters are like night and day. Watch him. He's got everything it takes to be top notch.

Colm Meaney

#8. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Merlin Olsen

#9. If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

Merlin Mann

#10. It's a stage name," said Arthur, impatiently. "Like Madonna."
"No, Madonna's actual name is Madonna," pointed out Merlin.
"Oh my God, stop flaunting your Big Gay Knowledge Of Pop,

FayJay

#11. Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Merlin Mann

#12. Any Arthurian enthusiast who has watched 'Merlin' has probably concluded that it's not accurate whatsoever - but, it's not meant to be. It's not meant to be a true telling. It's in a fantasy setting, it's really concentrating on the fantasy element.

Colin Morgan

#13. Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room.
"Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

J.K. Rowling

#14. I go by Ambrosius, Wild Man of the Woods, and Son of the Devil. Call me what you want, but I am Merlin." - Merlin

Ben Zackheim

#15. You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Alastair Reynolds

#16. I searched until I panted for breath, but could not find it. The solid stone structure was nowhere to be seen. The house was gone - and Merlin with it.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#17. If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

Merlin Mann

#18. From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.

Colin Morgan

#19. You are the land. The land is you.

Merlin Olsen

#20. To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

Walt Disney

#21. Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#22. This book is about cultivating habits that let you become organized enough to get results for your students and to make your life more fun and less stressful.

Maia Heyck-Merlin

#23. Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout

Harper Lee

#24. Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots.' [William the road-mender about Merlin]

John Steinbeck

#25. I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Merlin Olsen

#26. 'Merlin' was a big step; it was my first big role in a show.

Tom Hopper

#27. Know ye not then the Riddling of the Bards?
Confusion, and illusion, and relation,
Elusion, and occasion, and evasion?

Alfred Tennyson

#28. Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.

Merlin Mann

#29. Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

Jack Youngblood

#30. Muscle is good, but craft is better

Wace

#31. Stop. I'm not going to take any more input until I've made something with what I got.

Merlin Mann

#32. I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

Merlin Olsen

#33. So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left - "
"Don't talk to your mother like that.

J.K. Rowling

#34. Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

Merlin Mann

#35. I hate her."
Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.

Catherine Fisher

#36. And what in the name of Merlin's most baggy Y Fronts was that about?

J.K. Rowling

#37. All gods are one god.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#38. The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

Merlin Stone

#39. [Arthur]
"Er ... Just how much did you have to drink?"
Merlin frowned at Arthur ... Both of him.

FayJay

#40. Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

Mary Stewart

#41. Merlin seeks assistance from Pigwiggen, the only one of Arthur's knights who is also a fairy, and they unite their enchantments to move the British Court to Turkestan. Lively end to Act One.

Davies Robertson

#42. Merlin seemed really relaxed and lackadaisical for a cat who had just transported through a public restroom into Magic Central and been met by a ghoul at the door.

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#43. Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

Joseph Fiennes

#44. It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

Merlin Olsen

#45. I believe the Gods hate to be bored, so I do my best to amuse them. That way they smile on me. Your God,' Merlin said sourly, 'despises amusement, demanding grovelling worship instead. He must be a very sorry creature.

Bernard Cornwell

#46. Merlin nodded gravely. Doing what is right is nearly always simple, Mr. Potter. But it is never easy.

G. Norman Lippert

#47. So you're Merlin the Magician? We studied you in school last year." I had no idea the guy was so wacky. "Oh no, Merlin was my bwother." Mermin smiled. "Made quite a name for himself in your world," he chuckled.

L.R.W. Lee

#48. Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at first. Just keep moving: don't ruminate and stare at the wall. Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

Merlin Mann

#49. An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

Terry Eagleton

#50. And yet knowing all these mistakes were yours, beautifully yours, and you came out the better for it... the boy I left behind well on his way to becoming an extraordinary man and an extraordinary king." Merlin smiled. "If only from your choice of princess alone.

Soman Chainani

#51. Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

Merlin Stone

#52. People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.

Merlin Mann

#53. I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing.

Merlin Olsen

#54. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Priya Ardis

#55. There is always that one summer that changes you.

Beth Merlin

#56. Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.

Mary Stewart

#57. Merlin's beard, Harry, you made me jump," said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. "How did you get out of the castle?"
"I think Filch must've forgotten to lock the doors," said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.

J.K. Rowling

#58. People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

Merlin Mann

#59. Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out," I said. He arched an elegant silver eyebrow. "Okay," I said. "That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended." "Indeed," said the Merlin.

Jim Butcher

#60. [Arthur to Merlin]
I'm the Prince of Wales, and you're Welsh. I can do whatever I bloody well like to you.

FayJay

#61. Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more ...

Mary Stewart

#62. This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

John Steinbeck

#63. People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

Merlin Mann

#64. It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare.

Rudyard Kipling

#65. But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.

Bernard Cornwell

#66. Merlin, if you don't stop whining, I'm going to take Gwen's sword and beat you to death with it," said Arthur, evenly.
"It's plastic."
"So it will take me a long time. I'm still game.

FayJay

#67. I can ski out of my back door.

Merlin Olsen

#68. The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#69. I'm the prince and you're the princess and rescuing our friend is my job. Just ask Merlin!" Tedros yelled, practically a shriek - "Yes, now you've got it, boy," Merlin spouted, not looking as he trimmed his beard with a thorn. "Sound perfectly female now.

Soman Chainani

#70. Its like Mrs Fitzherbert all over again, or that bloody Simpson woman! I do not believe it!"
"Sorry," said Merlin, wondering who the blazes Mrs Fitzherbert and that bloody Simpson woman
were. He had a feeling Gaius didn't mean Marge.

FayJay

#71. Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#72. After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

Merlin Olsen

#73. Sometimes I wonder," Merlin declared, licking a bit of mustard off his upper lip, "where exactly does the food come from? Is there a fourth dimension where a magic hat goes to fetch it? Or does it simply summon turkeys and bread out of thin air? In which case, what is this sandwich really made of?

Soman Chainani

#74. Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.

Soman Chainani

#75. Power in praise or mountain that move is a nice book bec not only reading it after you read when you put it into practice thenvyou would experience what the author say.

Merlin R. Carothers

#76. In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life,
the Mistress of Heaven.
At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.
Do you remember?

Merlin Stone

#77. The dead are so long dead," explained Merlin. "Better to have lived while alive, yes? Besides, if they achieve this, they will have conquered a giant; they will be invincible!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#78. Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of
Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy
Stardust.

FayJay

#79. The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

Merlin Olsen

#80. Ding dong, the witch was dead" murmured Merlin as Gwen headed down the path towards the lake. She turned around and smiled "you're not the wizard of OZ Merlin, you don't get to make that call" she replied icily before diving into the cool crisp water.

Louise Gann

#81. At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)

Mick McCarthy

#82. A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Deepak Chopra

#83. By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

Merlin Mann

#84. He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating

Priya Ardis

#85. The female heart is a world unto itself, incomprehensible to men. Yet I perceive that you have been of a mood today: pensive, contemplative, hesitant, expectant. And you have spent the better part of the day watching me as if you thought I might follow your merlin into the sky and never return.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#86. Without Merlin, there would be no Gandalf, so I see them as the same thing, one a continuation of the other.

Katie McGrath

#87. Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

Deepak Chopra

#88. Merlin's beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.

J.K. Rowling

#89. Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

Merlin Olsen

#90. The Lady smiled, close-mouthed. "You magicked for Arthur himself, Merlin. The Human part of you has always loved Arthur.

Anne Eliot Crompton

#91. Minerva McGonagall was later awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, by the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and shortly afterwards appeared on a card in the Chocolate Frog Famous Witches and Wizards series, an accolade she admitted she had never imagined receiving.

J.K. Rowling

#92. If there's one thing worse than a zealot, it's a hypocrite!
Merlin, from the X-Calibur sequel

R. Jackson-Lawrence

#93. Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell may be broken or how Merlin may be released from it.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#94. Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.

Mary Stewart

#95. Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?"
"No, just the way we do,"Merlin replied.With a flick of his finger he lit the soggy heap of kindling that Arthur had gathered ( ... ) A blaze leapt up on the instant. Merlin then opened his hands and produced some food out of thin air.

Deepak Chopra

#96. Buried treasure isn't worth much.

S.R. Ford

#97. It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#98. Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

Liam Neeson

#99. Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.

Merlin Olsen

#100. Since that night you walked through my dreams, the world is full of magic things.

David Paul Kirkpatrick