Top 100 Quotes About Wizards
#1. The last time I was this scared, I peed myself."
"The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
John Green
#2. War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.
Terry Goodkind
#3. In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Billy Joel
#4. Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.
Nick Harkaway
#5. Do all wizards," he said, "get the kiddie crowns and war them around? Or is that only for special occasions?"
"Do all werewolves," I shot back, snatching the crown from my head, "wear glasses and too much Old Spice? Or is taht only for full moons?
Jim Butcher
#6. Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
Gillian Jacobs
#7. Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.
Kelly Link
#8. If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
John Green
#10. Thief: I hate ****ing wizards!
Other Thief: You shouldn't **** them, then
Terry Pratchett
#11. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.
J.K. Rowling
#12. The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-"
"Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.
Patricia C. Wrede
#13. They say fiction is the closest well ever get from magic. Open a book and an entire world will pop out and it doesn't matter if it's dragons or Victorian children or wizards. You are immediately someone else and somewhere else
Holly Smale
#14. The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.
Deepak Chopra
#15. I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.
Aubrey Plaza
#16. It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?
Jim Butcher
#17. Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. That's called being honest. Wanderers are to wizards what apes are to Wanderers.
Stewart Anderson
#19. They don't, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don't need to exercise your power.
Terry Goodkind
#20. The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.
Edwin Edwards
#21. How terrible it would be if all my people had been turned human by well-meaning wizards - exiled,
Peter S. Beagle
#22. And that was what the Christians had been doing in their church, consecrating their wizards by making boys into black-clothed priests who would spread their filth further, and my son, my eldest son, was now a damned Christian priest and I hit him again.
Bernard Cornwell
#23. Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
Ralph Bakshi
#25. Elderly witches and wizards still use the saying 'I'll take Cadogan's pony' to mean, 'I'll salvage the best I can from a tricky situation'.
J.K. Rowling
#26. For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
Fiona McIntosh
#27. For instance, Slytherin Took only pure-blood wizards Of great cunning, just like him,
J.K. Rowling
#28. She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."
Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.
Jim Butcher
#29. Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
Robin Marantz Henig
#30. She didn't care about wizards, but she thought Alan Rickman was dreamy.
Rainbow Rowell
#31. The lawyer's assistant, who was scribbling down notes, lit right up. "Magic is supposed to affect electricity like that. I've read that wizards can't be in the same room with things like computers and stuff." I knew where she'd read that. I bit my
Patricia Briggs
#32. When you became a wizard you were expected to stop shaving and grow a beard like a gorse bush. Very senior wizards looked capable of straining nourishment out of the air via their mustaches, like whales.
Terry Pratchett
#33. The very best wizards don't need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff.
Jim Butcher
#34. I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies.
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.
Shashi Tharoor
#36. Also, why did Mary Poppins even need such a huge bag if it's magically designed to fit everything? Seriously. I'm guessing that Mary asked for a magic pocket and the wizards were like, "What, like a dude? Nah. I don't think so, lady. You'll get a purse." Those guys were motherfuckers.
Jenny Lawson
#37. The two weary but still talkative wizards sat in a pair of fan-backed chairs and pitched pebbles at the drunken satyr in the fountain. They talked about wars, enchantments, and obscure facts until the sky above the forest began to be fringed with pale blue.
John Bellairs
#39. I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
Yoko Ono
#40. Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.
Terry Pratchett
#41. City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together ... There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to a glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement.
Diana Wynne Jones
#42. What if a wizard was sent to kill him?"
"Well, as to that," Desmond replied, drawing his.longsword, "wizards die the same as the other men, once you cut their heads off.
George R R Martin
#43. 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
#44. Even the good plans of wise wizards like Gandalf and of good friends like Elrond go astray sometimes when you are off on dangerous adventures over the Edge of the Wild, and Gandalf was a wise enough wizard to know it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
Brian Selznick
#46. There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
Bram Stoker
#47. A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
Christina Stead
#48. Talent alone isn't enough," said Marcus. "You must adhere to good spell design practices. Even the most talented wizards can get careless and sloppy.
Jeremy Kubica
#49. Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
Elizabeth Moon
#50. I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.
Stephanie Perkins
#51. And with that, the two wizards stepped one after the other into the bright green fire and vanished.
J.K. Rowling
#52. It was a dream," he told himself firmly. "I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me I was going to a school for wizards. When I open my eyes I'll be at home in my cupboard.
J.K. Rowling
#53. As unwieldy as those early computers were, there was an aura surrounding them. They were perceived as magical; their operators, as wizards of the modern age endowed with extraordinary scientific prowess.
Ross Parry
#54. Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?'
'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
J.K. Rowling
#55. There were really only four kind of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches.
Terry Pratchett
#56. Jerry thought about what a letter of recommendation from a council of wizards would look like in his resume file.
"Totally secret," he said firmly.
Rick Cook
#57. In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
R.A. Salvatore
#58. Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ...
Margaret Atwood
#59. The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#60. Well, one day all the world's wizards and witches will kneel before Jesus and call Him 'Lord.
Jim Yackel
#61. In fact the Gods were as puzzled by all this as the wizards were, but they were powerless to do anything and in any case were engaged in an eons-old battle with the Ice Giants, who had refused to return the lawnmower.
Terry Pratchett
#62. I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly.
Andy Kindler
#63. Then that accounts for it. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us.
L. Frank Baum
#64. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...
Catherynne M Valente
#66. 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
#67. Wizards can put up with any amount of deprivation and discomfort, provided it is not happening to them.
Terry Pratchett
#68. Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.
Ralph Keyes
#69. I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere.
Jim Butcher
#70. Well,
me," he said. "A
ing wizard. I hate
ing wizards!" "You shouldn't
them, then," muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes.
Terry Pratchett
#71. It is written: "Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live" (Ex. 22:18); and: "In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land" (Ps. 100:8) ...
Thomas Aquinas
#72. Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.
Terry Goodkind
#73. They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women.
Jim Butcher
#74. The wizards were good at wind, weather being a matter not of force but of lepidoptery. As Archchancellor Ridcully said, you just had to know where the damn butterflies were.
Terry Pratchett
#76. 'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.
Greg Van Eekhout
#77. There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.
Joe Perry
#78. The wizards' automatic response to any problem was to see if there was a book about it.
Terry Pratchett
#79. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
Lindy West
#80. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians" ~ The Witch of the North
L. Frank Baum
#81. You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire.
Do you really think so?'
Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.'
I don't like the wood elves.'
They're okay. They're misunderstood.
Janet Evanovich
#82. I've said all along that wizards would pay for how they treat house-elves. Well, Voldemort did ... and so did Sirius.
J.K. Rowling
#83. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
Mantak Chia
#84. She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results. Her
Joe Hill
#85. But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin.
Jim Butcher
#87. He quite liked the wizards. They didn't commit crimes. Not Vimes's type of crimes, anyway. The occult wasn't Vimes's beat. The wizards might well mess up the very fabric of time and space but they didn't lead to paperwork, and that was fine by Vimes. There
Terry Pratchett
#88. You want me to stop and give the Wizards a chance to do it?" he shot back. Dead
Gordon Korman
#89. It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess.
Terry Pratchett
#90. The other skeletal hand held small cubes of cheese and pineapple on a stick. "WELL?" said Death, in a voice with all the warmth and color of an iceberg. He caught the wizards' gaze, and glanced down at the stick. I WAS AT A PARTY, he added, a shade reproachfully.
Terry Pratchett
#91. Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.
Cinda Williams Chima
#92. Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer.
Terry Pratchett
#93. Wizards are specially trained to see things that are there and not to see things that aren't.
Terry Pratchett
#94. Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.
Terry Pratchett
#95. In a sense, we here at the FSRI are like giant wizards at the controls of an incredible machine, operating levers and buttons from behind a great tapestry to provide you with the level of motivation and direction necessary for you to succeed!
Martin Fossum
#96. Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
Jim Butcher
#98. I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.
Sukhwinder Singh
#99. As far as there can be friendship between wizards and goblins, I have goblin friends - or, at least, goblins I know well, and like.
J.K. Rowling
#100. I knew witches and wizards were allergic to money because the presence of cash is like a rival evil.
William Kamkwamba
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