Svengali Quotes

#1. After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

Charles Baxter

#2. The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, I want to love, I want to live ...

David Sedaris

#3. It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

Peter O'Toole

#4. He's sort of a Svengali... It means someone who's manipulative. More than that: somebody who makes you think that you need him in order to accomplish anything.

Anne Beattie

#5. Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#6. However long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

P.D. James

#7. To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

Willie D

#8. I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.

Noel Clarke

#9. I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.

Kirk Hammett

#10. Things don't just happen, people make them happen

Zig Ziglar

#11. Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

Jerry Harrison

#12. I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.

Hal Elrod

#13. It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

Raymond Pettibon

#14. You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place - you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

Bernard Malamud

#15. Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.

Ginger Rogers

#16. I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did
being created by a Svengali
which took me a long time to overcome.

Pia Zadora

#17. You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

Noel Gallagher