Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in whether I'm better than you; only whether I'm better than yesterday.” — Mike Ormsby Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
“[M]iracle presents … the sorcery of the imagination, which satisfies … all the wishes of the heart.” — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“She was sorceress on paper, a goddess in her mind but a mere peasant to everyone living in her present times.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was to be outdone by a little magic boy and his tricks,” he said. “I salute you,… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead,… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Then...there was no sorcery?" Lannister snorted. "Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s sorcery,” Cade said, as if explaining things to a slow child. “That’s the explanation.” “I’m a scientist,” she said. “I need… — Christopher Farnsworth Copy Share Image
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image