Alchemy Quotes

106 Alchemy quotes by 93 unique authors

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What… — Bill Vaughan
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and… — Ernest Hemingway
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur. — Carlton Cuse
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general… — Francis Ford Coppola
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. — Paracelsus
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. — Paracelsus
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. — Paracelsus
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them… — Jerry Saltz
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged… — Jerry Saltz
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. — Sharon Salzberg
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples'… — Linus Torvalds
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of… — Hiromu Arakawa
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is… — Keith Ablow
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind. — Prince
So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy. — Sarah Dunant
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open. — Rumi
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in… — Muhammad Iqbal
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. — Arthur Rimbaud
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra;… — Paramahansa Yogananda
This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than… — Paulo Coelho
The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things. — Joanne Harris
Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if… — Libba Bray
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take… — Florence King
I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it… — Tana French

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