Quotes About 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

#13. Achievement is no hocus-pocus. It's focus, focus!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#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

#19. Hocus Pocus let's try to focus

Ellen Potter

#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. There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.

Dana Goldstein

#26. 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

#27. I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Carl R. Rogers

#28. The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#29. I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

Ed Westwick

#30. Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Thomas Guthrie

#32. Grace of service is the heart of belonging.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

Jeanine Tesori

#34. there's a very well-known method for getting women, everybody knows it, it's not to say a word.

Yasmina Reza

#35. I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

Sara Sheridan

#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