Top 39 The Magus Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The Magus

#1. The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement.
"We were traveling anonymously for safety - " explained the magus.
"But surely - "
" - and then we were robbed on the road."
"Ah," said the king, "the danger in being anonymous.

Megan Whalen Turner

#3. Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#4. Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, "You shot the ambassador?"
"You gave me the gun," protested Sounis.
"I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it!" Eugenides told him.
"Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray," murmured the magus.
"You shut up!" said Gen, laughing.

Megan Whalen Turner

#5. To draw from the world below is fraught with peril. The Magus

Joe Abercrombie

#6. It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

Megan Whalen Turner

#7. 'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.

Sharon Bolton

#8. Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again."
"Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis.
"I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.

Megan Whalen Turner

#9. The Magus,the sorcerer, the alchemist, are seized with the fascination of the unknown; and they desire a greatness that is inaccessible to mankind.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Megan Whalen Turner

#11. The lamplight gleamed on the Magus' white grin. People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists

Joe Abercrombie

#12. I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

Megan Whalen Turner

#13. He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that the sun and not the Earth might be the centre of the universe.

Megan Whalen Turner

#14. Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

Megan Whalen Turner

#15. If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

Peter Welch

#16. I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles - your Magus of words

John Geddes

#17. We demand that sex speak the truth [ ... ] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

Michel Foucault

#18. I find that I was wrong in suggesting that a Master of the Temple had a right to enter the temple of a Magus or an Ipsissimus. On the contrary, the rule that holds below, holds also above. The higher you go, the greater is the distance from one grade to another.

Aleister Crowley

#19. A skunk works does a totally different job. It's a group of people looking for a better hill to climb.

Peter H. Diamandis

#20. The gods are jealous and men are fools.

Marc Gascoigne

#21. Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.

John Fowles

#22. If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

Scott Cohen

#23. A mark on one arm like the one I bore. Here, in this time, the mark of sorcery, the mark of a magus. The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination.

Diana Gabaldon

#24. Borrow the strength from the companion who believes in you more that you believe in yourself. Guardian to Maeve

P.C. Cast

#25. I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.

John Fowles

#26. Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. Turns out Valhalla had been sending its recycling to home plate at Fenway, which could explain any problems the Red Sox were having with their offensive lineup.

Rick Riordan

#28. I have been wrong and Simon Magus has been right.

Toni Pike

#29. What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.

John Fowles

#30. All the things man has made are eventually destroyed.

Megan Whalen Turner

#31. Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Harold G. Coffin

#32. FAUSTUS. To have fooled the philosopher.
MAGUS. One finds, in my profession, sir, the greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
FAUSTUS. One finds the same in mine.

David Mamet

#33. Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#34. To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.

Barbara Hambly