Superstitious Quotes - Page 7

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  Rafael Nadal

  Tennis, Tennis Courts, Court

  "Travel tips from tennis ace Rafael Nadal". www.cnn.com. May 13, 2013.

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• Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

  Matt Smith

  Silly, Ties, Boots

  "When Esquire met Doctor Who". Interview, www.esquire.co.uk. April 1, 2010.

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• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  Umberto Eco

  Discipline, Today, Scientist

  "God isn't big enough for some people" by Umberto Eco, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 27, 2005.

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• Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

  Jostein Gaarder

  Friday, Astrology, People

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• I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Important, Persons

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• Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

  Robert Browning

  Atheist, Writing, Atheism

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 395

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• All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Religion, Educated

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Invisible Man”, p.80, Booklassic

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• I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Witch

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.162, Random House

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• I'm superstitious a little bit.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Believe, Men, Serious Man

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.83, OUP Oxford

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• Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Good Luck, Tragedy, Problem

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• Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Differences, Belief

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• In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Thinking, Fickle

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.52, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

  Wendell Berry

  Ideas

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

  Eric Ambler

  Law, Use, Facts

  Eric Ambler (1992). “A Coffin for Dimitrios/Judgement on Deltchev/Passage of Arms: Three Complete Novels in One Volume”, Galahad Books

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• I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.  I think my liver hurts.  However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me.  I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine.  What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

  Conor McPherson

  Thinking, Roots, Spirit

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Book, Hands

  Sean Kernan, Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “The secret books”, Leete'S Island Books

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• [Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

  James McAvoy

  Believe, Scotland, Scottish

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• For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

  Marilyn French

  Real, Home, Men

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• I'm a little superstitious.

  Bill Parcells

  Littles

  "Serby’s special Sunday Q & A with hall-of-fame-bound coach… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.

  Andrew Niccol

  Done, Able

  "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview With Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Men, Idols

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Critical Writings”, p.20

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• Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Charity, Moral

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.329, Library of America

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• Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.

  Leo Durocher

  Winning, Uniforms, Murder

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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