Superstitious Quotes · Page 6

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

— Seamus Heaney

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have had the same shinpads since I was eight or nine years old. Everyone laughs in the dressing room because of…

— Ander Herrera

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part…

— Jack Nicholson

I'm superstitious but I also think it's medically necessary to have amazing superstar energy before performing.

— Sarah Sherman

“The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry.”

— Truman Capote

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

— Plutarch

Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Billy [Ray] is a preternatural enthusiast. He would say things to me like, "Now, let me tell you about Episode 3." I'm…

— Matt Bomer

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as…

— Walter Lippmann

Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as…

— Jessica Chastain

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's…

— Ray Davies

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in…

— Samuel Johnson

“wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see…

— Dean Koontz

I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been…

— Anthony McCarten

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free…

— David Hume

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one…

— Lorraine Toussaint

It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as…

— Rory Gallagher

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to…

— Adam Parfrey

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“When my sons told me about what they'd found, I went to the priests of Belar and had them examine the auguries.…

— David Eddings

Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I am the superstitious kind: I never praise a shot because I fear the moment I do so, the batsman gets out.

— Virender Sehwag

Friday the 13th is a very bad day for a new beginning, and thus starting a new business on this day will…

— Anonymous

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

— Robert Browning

We Italians are very superstitious so before the game we prefer to predict that the opponents will win.

— Marco Verratti

It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

— R. C. Sproul

If you change your bed on Friday the 13th, you will see bad dreams throughout the night.

— Anonymous

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

— Bette Lord

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the…

— Isaac Asimov

I don't walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella in a room. I have always been superstitious.

— Athiya Shetty

I am not really superstitious - I get ready in the same order pretty much every day. I'm afraid I'm a bit…

— Geraint Thomas

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I'm not superstitious - I'm spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.

— Ekta Kapoor

I'm very superstitious, and I think it's bad luck. You don't have to show your love by tattooing it.

— Priya Sachdev

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

— Stephen Fry

“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm superstitious as far as stuff around the courts. I'll eat the same things and drink the same things, and have the…

— Mardy Fish

“There is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition.”

— Abhijit Naskar