Quotes by Sorcery Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. Alan Dean Foster sorcerysciencelying But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? Boris Pasternak sorceryfearhot 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 sorcerymagicgiving To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Charles Baudelaire sorcerylanguagepractice 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 sorceryverbspractice Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. George R. R. Martin sorceryspoonsflavor 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 sorcerydeploymentordinary 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 sorceryproblempeople 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 sorceryignorantpeople Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. Michio Kaku sorceryheroismfiction 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 sorcerygamesworld 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 sorcerywineworld If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. Rod Serling sorceryquestsmagic The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. Rudy Rucker sorcerymagicstyle 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 penancesorcerymagic Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. Rumi sorceryearthtrying 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 sorcerypowerfuleye 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 sorcerywritingbelieve This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. Terry Tempest Williams sorceryliteraturestories The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. Thomas Jefferson wandssorceryscience12»
