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Quotes About Spell

Phillip Tomasso III
~ Mykal is a wizard.
Actually, a spell's a lot like a prayer. Except instead of asking a male divinity to do something for you that you can't do for yourself, a spell draws upon your own inner, Divine gifts. It's a way of giving that gift shape or form in the world.
~ Phyllis Curott
Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
~ Barry Hannah
What I'm praying is that you will choose those beautiful possibilities over any self-annihilating alternatives. My whole life on earth has been the weaving of a single powerful spell. The best part of all my magic was loving you." (as spoken by the character Valerie Hyerman)
~ Aberjhani
I got my mojo workingBut it just don't work on you.
~ Preston Foster
I'm sorry if he's bleeding internally. I hope he's not. But I'm not wasting a healing spell on a guy that pointed a gun at us." "Can you do an 'I'm sorry' spell? I don't wanna get too near him." "It's not the Staff of Hallmark, Mol.
~ Joss Whedon
In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Maidstone exerts a curious spell upon the observer: suggesting, in its somewhat blunt, foursquare architecture, and its towering chimneys and exceptionally tall, narrow, and "brooding" windows, frequently kept shuttered, an unusual blend of the funereal and the sublime. As
~ Joyce Carol Oates
To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative -- this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Yet The Falls exerted its malevolent spell, that never weakened. If you grew up in the Niagara region, you knew. Adolescence was the dangerous time. Most Niagara natives kept their distance from The Falls, so they were immune. But if you drifted too near, even out of intellectual curiosity, you were in danger: beginning to think thoughts unnatural to your personality as if the thunderous waters were thinking for you, depriving you of your will. Clyde
~ Joyce Carol Oates
He understood the primitive, malevolent spell of The Falls: he was beginning to feel again the sinister attraction he'd felt years ago, as an adolescent, when his emotions were rawer, closer to the surface. Those feelings of dissolution, loss, panic, very like the sensation of falling in love against one's will. The Falls! You can't believe it can kill you. When it is pure spirit. After
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
~ Washington Irving
Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air
~ Washington Irving
He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
~ Washington Irving
No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match.
~ Wilfred Thesiger
Ice women diary: A witches tin key.
~ Dav Pilkey
Magic is what a mage does. It's temporary. A sorcerer can also do sorcery, which is permanent
~ Dave Duncan
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
~ Aeschylus
Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!
~ Raven
Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
~ Ian Frazier
I mean, I totally believe in magic and superstition.
~ Anna Boden
There is no law stronger than that of magic. - Kian
~ Kailin Gow
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.
~ Karl Marx