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Quotes About Genie

If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.
~ Mattie Stepanek
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.
~ Chris Diamantopoulos
I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, "Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie." What am I going to say, no? So I did it.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Kate materialized in a cloud of steam from the kitchen, like a genie in a chef's hat.
~ Barbara Michaels
take wisdom." The genie waves his hand and vanishes in a puff of smoke. The smoke clears to reveal the dean with his head in his hands, lost in thought. A minute elapses. Ten minutes. Fifteen. Finally a professor calls out, "Well? Well?" The dean mutters, "I should have taken the money.
~ Steven Pinker
Visually, I find that 'Gee' and 'Genie' from the 2009 era is what made Girls' Generation such an iconic image.
~ Tiffany Hwang
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
~ William Allen White
New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie.
~ Bill Maher
One can make a habit of anything. If one is taught from a young age to pray, he will pray out of habit. Prayer is not done for the well-being of the god one prays to. It is done for the well-being of the one who prays. It is also done out of fear. The fear that if one does not pray, something will be taken away from him, or that he will be punished. Man has turned god into a genie and a warden.
~ Kapil Gupta
Gaben, wer hätte sie nicht? Talente - Spielzeug für Kinder, Erst der Ernst macht den Mann, erst der Fleiß das Genie.
~ Theodor Fontane
Hi. Come on in." Call looked nervous, too. "After I told you about the binoculars, I wasn't sure I'd still be welcome." She smiled. "I remembered what happened that morning with the bear and decided to think of it as having a guardian angel." A corner of his mouth curved. "Now I'm an angel. I think I like that better than evil genie.
~ Kat Martin
When we make ourselves high priests of art we deceive ourselves again, art is like a genie. It is more powerful than ourselves, but only by virtue of ourselves does it exist and create. Like a genie it has no will of its own, and is, even somewhat stupid; but by our will it moves to build our gleaming palaces and provide a mistress for the palace, which is most important. The high priest is a cultist, who worships the genie that someone else has invoked.
~ Jack Kerouac
A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude.
~ Cassandra Clare
As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after me." "Are you taking up religion in your old age, then, Captain?" "Hardly. Habit, my love, habit.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories
~ Tim Brookes
Who can take the measure of a child? The Genie of the Arabian tale is nothing to him. He, too, may be let out of his bottle and fill the world. But woe to us if we keep him corked up.
~ Charlotte M. Mason
THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
~ Sidney Sheldon
The glorious, unending laps players take around refrains in Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" release even more energy than they gather up; the more they hug the song's corners to make sense of Dylan's casual threats, the more his disdain hovers over them, tantalizingly out of reach. In such defining moments, a stylistic genie got released from its bottle, and many found new places for themselves just by chasing some of the same riffs atop their own beats.
~ Tim Riley
A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-
~ Cassandra Clare
Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch. Even when the bulbs of the hourglass shatter, when darkness withholds the shadow from the sundial, when the mainspring winds down so far that the clock hands hold still as death, time itself keeps on.
~ Dava Sobel
The steel kettle shone, a slow furl of steam at its spout, vaguely suggestive of genie and lamp. Oh, grant me a wish, just the one.
~ John Banville
You can't blame that genie for hating everyone," she said. "Think how you felt shut in that dungeon.
~ Diana Wynne Jones