Quotes About Spells

#1. Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.

Aaron Koblin

#2. Stripped of monarchy and magic spells, he was just a man in a mad world looking for the girl who shared his heart.

Alethea Kontis

#3. Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort." "Oh," Will said. "How peculiar.

Cassandra Clare

#4. There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. The world is the ring of his spells,
And the play of his miracles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.

Penelope Wilcock

#7. She gets that fabulous edge that girls get to their voices, the edge that spells oncoming Tantrum From the Bowels of Hell, that says, 'I'll scratch the heavens down around you and suck the fucken air from your lungs and spit you to fucken hell and you know it.

D.B.C. Pierre

#8. Look," Thomas said, pointing down the line of stacks they'd formed, confused, but happy that the letters were so obvious. "It spells FLOAT and then it spells CAT." "Float cat?" Newt asked. "Doesn't sound like a bloody rescue code to me.

James Dashner

#9. I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.

Thomm Quackenbush

#10. When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Devil's Wish
A bowl of spells
Swirls a mix
Smoke and bubbles
Seek the fix
Young boy's eye
And fever few
Witches grass
Some mandrake root

William O'Brien

#12. My real wizardry has nothing to do with spells at all. It has to do with knowledge.

Danielle Paige

#13. Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

Albert Einstein

#14. A whirlwind tour, I think, with each day starting in a different city, you wearing a different silk dress, tasting food the likes of which you cannot even imagine and learning how to weave your word-spells in all the world's languages.

Lisa Mantchev

#15. Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.

Aprilynne Pike

#16. There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. By the way, by using the very same letters, "listen" spells "silent.

Kirk Byron Jones

#18. Spell?" The priest proudly raised his head. "I'm not a godless sorcerer! I don't cast spells! My power comes from faith and prayer!" "Can you or can't you?" "I can." "Then get on with it, because time's pressing on." "Geralt,

Andrzej Sapkowski

#19. You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.

Harbhajan Singh

#20. Did I know any useful spells? Why no, I sure didn't. But go on, ask me the Latin name of, like, foxglove. Digitalis purpurea. You're welcome.

Cate Tiernan

#21. Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#22. Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future.

Sean Best

#23. Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

Herbert M. Shelton

#24. Why can't music be magic? Aren't spells just words you repeat? And what are songs? Lyrics that play over and over again. The words are like a formula." All

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

#25. 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

#26. You didn't force me. Against my better judgment, and despite all the therapy sessions and spells, I just couldn't help myself. You're like crack to my heart." His gaze narrowed. "Did you just compare me to a highly addictive, dangerous drug?" "Yes." "Mon amour.

Eve Langlais

#27. Looking behind causes nothing but broken spells and wasted pain

Cassandra Clare

#28. The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

Mary Ruefle

#29. But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps.

Lorrie Moore

#30. There were spells on opening doors and closing them, spells to ward your door, and even one to discourage Jehovah's Witnesses from your door,

Juliet Dark

#31. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze ... My charming rod, my potent river spells ...

John Keats

#33. It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatories to the Treaty, and therefore that we cannot deny Iran the rights due to it as a signatory of the NPT.

Thabo Mbeki

#34. Acceptance spells death to a writer.

Arundhati Roy

#35. The poetry made her uncomfortable. It was too much like reading spells.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#36. In these books, there were spells and rituals for making a living soul something hungry and desperate like him, but he didn't find likelihood in any of them. All it told him was that man was terrified of nothing so much as death. Having died, he could think of dozens of things more worth his fear.

Thomm Quackenbush

#37. If there are spells, they have a right to weave.

Catherynne M Valente

#38. I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spells. I didn't want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation.

V.C. Andrews

#39. In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

John Barton

#40. Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#41. Success depends on our choice of deployment (in terms of both quantity and/ or Quality) of the 86400 spells (Hindi- Pal) available each day for reflection, correction, and improvement,towards the journey for perfection.

Priyavrat Thareja

#42. She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits.

Thomm Quackenbush

#43. Unforgivable Curses are the three most powerful and sinister spells known to the wizarding world, and are tools of the Dark Arts. They were first classified as "Unforgivable" in 1717. They are the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, the Cruciatus Curse, Crucio, and the Imperius Curse, Imperio.

George Duckett

#44. Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

Robin Sloan

#45. It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

Graham Norton

#46. Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Sigmund Freud

#47. The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits - not animals ... . There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Ronald Reagan

#48. In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.

Mark Batterson

#49. Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ...

Margaret Atwood

#50. As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that pour over an editor's desk, he cannot afford to be 'as good as'; he (or she) must be 'better than.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#51. I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders ... I fall in love too easily ... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.

Nina LaCour

#52. Fear too often spells failure.

Walt Disney

#53. Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.

Nora Roberts

#54. Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.

Martin Jacques

#55. For we are always at one with the instrument of our magic spells.

Stephane Mallarme

#56. Manticores with love spells," Marjani said. "Well, that's awfully terrifying.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#57. There were filing cabinets, desks once occupied by long-redundant agents, tables, piles of paperwork, back issues of Spells magazine, several worn-out sofas, and in the corner, a moose.

Jasper Fforde

#58. You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Winona Ryder

#59. She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Dean Koontz

#60. If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'

Lyn Nofziger

#61. There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

Michael Gambon

#62. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Grace Noll Crowell

#63. If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.

T.F. Hodge

#64. Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in ways that make others think. It is a fault, I fear, that has come with age.

Cheryl Matthynssens

#65. People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Linda Blair

#66. Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

Philip K. Dick

#67. You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just plain crazy or cruel or both. The world burns and you praise the asshole who either set it or let it.

Rick Yancey

#68. The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

Norman Vincent Peale

#69. It will be the same silence, the same as ever, murmurous with muted lamentation, panting and exhaling of impossible sorrow, like distant laughter, and brief spells of hush, as of one buried before his time. Long or short, the same silence. Then I resurrect and begin again.

Samuel Beckett

#70. Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Al Boliska

#71. Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#72. Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Marshall McLuhan

#73. With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin.
Don't let me go crazy.
The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.

Helen Humphreys

#74. Well, he's like a wizard, right?" Mercury asked. "He's exactly like a wizard," Jessica said, looking over at her. "Mostly because he casts spells and shit." "I

C.T. Phipps

#75. All my spells smell like burnt hair lately.

Jaya

#76. Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#77. Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell.

Alexa Kitchen

#78. You totally ruined my life, you know that?' said Rincewind hotly. 'I could have really made it as a wizard if you hadn't decided to use me as a sort of portable spellbook. I can't remember any other spells, they're all too frightened to stay in the same head as you!

Terry Pratchett

#79. I told her that magic spells only work until the person under the spell is really and honestly tired of it. It ends when continuing becomes simply too ghastly a prospect.

Helen Oyeyemi

#80. My new life was marking me. It was happening so quickly. There were intermittent spells of resistance, during which I'd pluck and moisturize and exfoliate, and then there was a period of grieving for my old self, who seemed to be disappearing toward the horizon, and then I relaxed into it.

Kristin Kimball

#81. It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

Craig Brown

#82. The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle

John C. Maxwell

#83. When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

Feist

#84. I wasn't afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my purse for dealing with the less dangerous pests, but even I knew you have to be careful with an upset woman.

J.C. Nelson

#85. I really like the video and I'm reading Sarah book Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen

#86. Stannis knows who Aemon is. If the red woman requires king's blood for her spells ...

George R R Martin

#87. ...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.

Kate Berridge

#88. Mr. Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of books. They might put their dirty fingers on them. They might tear them! They might- horror of horrors!- read them and try the spells!

Susanna Clarke

#89. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Teresa Amabile

#90. Defensive spells?" Professor Umbridge repeated with a little laugh. "Why, I can't imagine any situation arising in my classroom that would require you to use a defensive spell, Miss Granger. You surely aren't expecting to be attacked during class?

J.K. Rowling

#91. When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

Tom Felton

#92. Before she went to bed, she loaded her Tatham percussion-lock pistol and added its weight to her bounty of spells. One didn't always need magic to win a fight.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#93. It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#94. Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

William Cowper

#95. His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

Ravi Zacharias

#96. He cupped her head with both hands. "You're full of your own kind of magic, and it's much more rare and beautiful than all the other spells around you. They are commonplace. You are unique.

Thea Harrison

#97. And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself no no, it's gonna be fine. There's gonna be more songs, it's all good.

Dan Mangan

#98. You tell me that magic is just desire made real. Maybe spells are nothing more than words that you believe with all your heart,

Deborah Harkness

#99. I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

Terry Pratchett

#100. M-O-O-N Spells moon

Stephen King