Witch Quotes - Page 3

• Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Cases, Company

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.11, Random House

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• 'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'

  Marlon Wayans

  Real, Thinking, Make You Think

  Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Barbie, Tvs

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.79, Zondervan

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• People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.

  Anne Ursu

  Doors, People, Snow

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• So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

  J. K. Rowling

  Light, Fire, Mad

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• ...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Halloween, Silly, Mean

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Talk, Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Looks, Reason Why, Trouble

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• Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.169-70.

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• In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

  Celia Rees

  Nine, Towns, Rags

  Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

  Joni Mitchell

  War, Hands, Land

  Song: Tax Free, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

  Orson Scott Card

  Promise, Wicked, Gingerbread

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• Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

  Ryan Holiday

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  Ryan Holiday (2013). “Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising (APenguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.11, Penguin

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• The love and support from the Witches of East End fans continues to blow us away and renews our faith that storytelling matters, strong female characters matter, and messages about faith and hope matter. I love this family. I love this story. And to be part of a show that has inspired and touched so many people's hearts is a true blessing.

  Rachel Boston

  Strong, Character, Heart

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• I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Names, Different, Calling

  Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• The
  word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people
  wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to
  reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the
  feminine within as divine.

  Starhawk

  Powerful, Men, People

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.

  John Shelby Spong

  Doubt, Prejudice, World

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Sleep, Dragons

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Baby, Thinking, Order

  "Wigfield". Book by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert, 2003.

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• Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Blood, Atheism, Devil

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• That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

  Bergen Evans

  Essence, Proof, Procedures

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• Was it weird having a witch grandma? Scary? Was she always, like, threatening to cast spells if you were bad?" "Most of the time she just threatened to send me to my room." "That doesn't sound so scary to me." "That's because you haven't met her.

  Richelle Mead

  Grandma, Scary, Sound

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.479, Penguin

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• One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to you by others, charitable refuse of their thoughts, so many ounces of stale bread of life a day.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Running, Bread Of Life, Helpful

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926). “Lolly Willowes; or, the loving huntsman”

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• All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.

  Washington Irving

  Lonely, Night, Men

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• Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Mother, Father, Mistake

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• Devil’s Snare, Devil’s Snare . . . what did Professor Sprout say? — it likes the dark and the damp —” “So light a fire!” Harry choked. “Yes — of course — but there’s no wood!” Hermoine cried, wringing her hands. “HAVE YOU GONE MAD?” Ron bellowed. “ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Fire, Light

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