Quotes About Talismans

#1. The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#2. My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Dani Shapiro

#3. Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

Michael S. Harper

#4. Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

William Cowper

#5. I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

M.J. Rose

#6. We lived so long and so self-consciously that we assumed we must live forever, and we buried our dead with enough talismans and spare change for eternity.

Natalie Angier

#7. A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Italo Calvino

#8. Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

Steven Johnson

#9. We grasp at symbols, talismans, triggers of association to what's forever gone.

Chris Kraus

#10. Unlike the Man with No Cell Phone, the Man Who Can See around Corners owns several, which he places on the table, like talismans. So far, so good. But you can imagine my disappointment when he promptly disabuses me of this seeing-around-corners stuff. "That's all bullshit," he says.

Eric Weiner

#11. My talismans are not obviously useless.

Jack Vance

#12. He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

John Wilmot

#13. I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

Martial

#14. Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#15. To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Lee Ryan

#16. I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.

Dave Keuning

#17. The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.

Barack Obama

#18. OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

Sydney Pollack

#19. Alternative to planning on late is to initiate before it's required, to ship before deadline, to put the idea out there before the crisis hits. This act of bravery actually gives you influence, leverage, and control in a way that planning on late never can. Dandelion

Seth Godin

#20. I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.

Jim Butcher

#21. Open your hearts to the love God instills ... God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.

Mother Teresa

#22. What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

Rita Dove

#23. You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

Marjane Satrapi

#24. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.

Preston Sprinkle

#25. After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

Barry Goldwater

#26. I said i hate to see u..
and i turned back ...
to hide my tears

Surya Parthi

#27. Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.

Nick Lake