Wizards Quotes - Page 11

• Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

  Keira Knightley

  Book, Kids, Half

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Yesterday in a 25 to 24 vote, Republicans welcomed back Lott back into their leadership and named him minority whip. That is great for Trent. They say minority whip is a stepping stone to Grand Wizard.

  Stephen Colbert

  Yesterday, Minorities, Stones

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• To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through science and fiction. From candlepower to teleportation, all the way to the fate of the cosmos in the span of a googol years, this is a cornucopia of teachable material. It is also a reminder of the simple thrill of applying science to the world around us, real or imagined. A new classic.

  Caleb Scharf

  Real, Fate, Simple

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• I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, People, Males

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

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• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

  Aaron Koblin

  Get Well, Technology, Elephants

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• There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Fall, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.774, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

  Terry Pratchett

  Senior, Long, Magic

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  James G. Frazer

  Prayer, Swimming, Sea

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.

  Hugo Chavez

  Children, Culture, Venezuela

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• Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Men, Upset, Age

  "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

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• Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sex, Kansas, Yesterday

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• 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

  Kids, Army, People

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• I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

  Margaret Walker

  Cancer, Believe, Heart

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.3, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Hate, Magic, Nightmare

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.

  James Ponsoldt

  Rain, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about how we tell stories and the way stories are very subjective. How we tell some things and leave other things out in the way The Princess Bride is or The Wizard of Oz is, which both have a framing device.

  James Ponsoldt

  Princess, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're playing a character for 10 years, it can challenge you less than it did at the beginning, so it was exciting to take on some new shoes. Especially with Erich Blunt, because being a tech wizard wasn't something I thought I would do after Harry Potter.

  Tom Felton

  Character, New Shoes, Years

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.

  Tim Burton

  Dream, Real, Kids

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• Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Enemy, United States

  Gore Vidal (2001). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, Broadway Business

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• 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

  Islands, Sea, Storm

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Boys, Ideas

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• I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

  Marcel Dzama

  Black And White, Silent, Versions

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Establishment suggests there must be some Wizard of Oz somewhere pulling the strings. That's not the way it works. There are individuals like myself. I sat there and watched Donald Trump, and I said, look, someone has got to say something.

  Mitt Romney

  Way, Looks, Individual

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• 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

  Country, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Kings, Dark

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