Alchemist Quote by William H. Gass Download Open image “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” — William H. Gass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alchemist Book Change the world Changing the world Gold Kids Leadership Storytelling World Writing
When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
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 he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Gold is the root-essence of lead. It is considered an implicit component of all metals in greater or lesser degree, based on their density,… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer that I wish to make… — William H. Gass Copy Share
The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“I dreamed my lips would drift down your back like a skiff on a river. I'd follow a vein with the point of my… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like Penelope by moving our mind back and forth, forth and back, reweaving what’s unwoven, undoing what’s been done; and language, which regularly returns us to its origin, which starts us off again on the same journey,… — William H. Gass Copy Share
“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb yet find themselves content and uncomplained of. We want a diction which contains the quaint, the rare, the technical, the obsolete, the old, the lent, the nonce, the local slang and argot of the street, in… — William H. Gass Copy Share
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the… — William H. Gass Copy Share
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path.-Edward Elric — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share
Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call… — Paul Gambaccini Copy Share Image
What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Setiap pencarian dimulai dengan keberuntungan bagi sang pemula. Dan setiap pencarian diakhiri dengan ujian berat bagi si pemenang.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
