Wizards Quotes - Page 13

• I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

  Ali Smith

  Men, Thinking, Trying

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• This is going to sound strange, but I really feel I know Roland very well. In Wizard and Glass, I got to know the young Roland, and then as I traveled with him from Eluria (found in the story "The Little Sisters of Eluria") through Tull and the Mohaine Desert (The Gunslinger), and then all the way to the Dark Tower.

  Robin Furth

  Dark, Glasses, Little Sister

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Kids, Home

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, World, Firsts

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Emotions: Outline of a Theory”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

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• I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly.

  Andy Kindler

  Shows, Convince

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• You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.

  Frank Caliendo

  Robins, Remakes, Whole

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• My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

  Meredith Brooks

  Wind, Gone, Fairy Tale

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• If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

  Kage Baker

  Tolerance, Comedian, Watches

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.91, Tachyon Publications

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• Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Paranoia

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• . . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe. Our ordinary mind tells us this cannot be, there must be something more to it than this. It must surely be more "glorious", with light blazing in space around us, angels with flowing golden hair swooping down to meet us, and a deep Wizard of Oz voice announcing, "Now you have been introduced to the nature of your mind." There is no such drama.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Drama, Believe, Angel

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• I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Hard Times, Two

  "These Amazing Shadows". January 22, 2011.

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• The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.

  Laird Hamilton

  Morning, Rip, Ideas

  Laird Hamilton (2010). “Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul (And, of Course, Surfing)”, p.11, Rodale

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Arbitrary, Chaos, Force

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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• It’s not about having a Silicon Valley attitude—it’s about having an entrepreneurial attitude.  It’s about partnering with other organizations in and around your area.  It’s about thinking big with entrepreneurs that sit next to you in your coworking space.  It’s about collaborating with tech gurus, social media wizards and community leaders at cool business events.  It’s the people that make a community an entrepreneurial one—not the location—and it’s up to you to contribute.

  Brad Feld

  Attitude, Thinking, Media

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• In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Character, Past, Games

  Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 22, 2001.

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• How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

  Bill Veeck

  Wisdom, Wrinkles, Sage

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• Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron."Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?""She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes - or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi.""Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Daughter, Garden

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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• It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide to job success and survival. The surprise is how urgent it is for every author, client, and boss who works with editors to embrace Carol Fisher Saller's 'subversiveness'-or suffer the next outcome from hell.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Jobs, Real, Knowing

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• I'm a season ticket holder to the Washington Wizards, and I love going to Washington Nationals and Redskins games.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Games, Tickets, Redskins

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

  Helen Keller

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

  Criss Jami

  Wise, Winning, Funny But True

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

  Ezra Miller

  Firsts, Remember, My Favorite

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