Quotes About Wizardry

#1. And no wonder we couldn't find Flamel in that Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry," said Ron. "He's not exactly recent if he's six hundred and sixty-five, is he?

J.K. Rowling

#2. It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

David Baldacci

#3. Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

Rob Manuel

#4. Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.

Diane Duane

#5. It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I

Jim Butcher

#6. You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#7. What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

Peter S. Beagle

#8. Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

Tina Brown

#9. The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Basically I just had to say, Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music. So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

Kirk Hammett

#11. No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

Jeff Minter

#13. This diary holds memories of terrible things. Things that were covered up. Things that happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

J.K. Rowling

#14. When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous ...
("A Wine of Wizardry")

George Sterling

#15. The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Theodore Levitt

#16. Witchcraft and wizardry had so effectively been denied that his own powers began to weaken, for there were few who contributed to his strength by invoking his name.

Orson Scott Card

#17. It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess.

Terry Pratchett

#18. And in that very moment, away behind in some far corner of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed reckoning nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynefel at its strongest. Perhaps threats simply slid past his attention and he made himself immune.

C.J. Cherryh

#20. The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

Gwendoline Christie

#21. We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

John Napier

#22. The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist ... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

Alonzo King

#23. Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.

Jim Butcher

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

Danielle Paige

#25. Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Amit Kalantri

#26. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Amit Kalantri

#27. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Amit Kalantri

#28. A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

Amit Kalantri

#29. Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

Fritz Leiber

#30. Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

T.F. Hodge

#31. His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him.

Lita Burke

#32. A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.

Amit Kalantri

#33. At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips.

Fritz Leiber

#34. Any fool would not be brave
Who takes no heed of this verse
No heroic deed or action save
Any man from Finndragon's curse

Richie Earl