Quotes by Sorcery Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. Alan Dean Foster sorcery science lying But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? Boris Pasternak sorcery fear hot To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all. Carlos Castaneda sorcery magic giving To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Charles Baudelaire sorcery language practice There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Charles Baudelaire sorcery verbs practice Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. George R. R. Martin sorcery spoons flavor Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. Hakim Bey sorcery deployment ordinary There are people who do, what we would call, lower sorcery. It is best not to be concerned with them. They are not happy people and they can't be a problem if you are aware of what they are doing. Frederick Lenz sorcery problem people There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! Marion Zimmer Bradley sorcery ignorant people Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. Michio Kaku sorcery heroism fiction If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery? R. Scott Bakker sorcery games world The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson sorcery wine world If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. Rod Serling sorcery quests magic The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. Rudy Rucker sorcery magic style He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin. Saint Basil penance sorcery magic Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. Rumi sorcery earth trying He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something. Steven Brust sorcery powerful eye I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature. Terry Tempest Williams sorcery writing believe This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. Terry Tempest Williams sorcery literature stories The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. Thomas Jefferson wands sorcery science 12»
