I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Cutting your nails on Friday the 13th is again a bad omen and can bring you some serious bad luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Doray may be rather superstitious but she is a good Catholic, and I hate to destroy anyone’s faith. Pure intuitive faith differs… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand, but, as all superstitious… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“suddenly stopped myself, knowing, by an inverse logic familiar to superstitious people, that the very foretaste of sorrows to come presumed a… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“There is more sense in your language, Bucklaw," replied the Master, "than might have been expected from your conduct - it is… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm pretty superstitious, I want to do everything right, get my routine right, and I wait for waves. I kinda try to… — Mark Occhilupo Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre. — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
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.… — Andrew Niccol Copy Share Image
Before competition, I always take an ice bath to make my body feel more refreshed. Then I always have coffee with a… — McKayla Maroney Copy Share Image
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. The feeling that is called "eerie" came upon him. He” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a bit superstitious, but I don't like to talk about anything until I've done it. — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Your kind has a superstitious terror of things ugly and broken; you fear that their condition may somehow infect you.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Somehow, despite all the science homebrewing requires, I’d become irrationally superstitious.” — Lucy Burningham Copy Share Image
If you were to pass a funeral procession on Friday the 13th, you will die the very next day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
