Quotes About Alchemy

Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it.

There is a way, however, to turn poison into medicine. Depending on how it's used, a single substance can be either poisonous or medicinal.

No I.D. is like an alchemist and he'll only give you so much at one time. It's for the best at the end of the day, cause through the process of working with No I.D. I was able to soak up his perspective for songwriting and production and keeping music alive.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

you make autumn misttaste like champagne and turn winter raininto the elixir of life itself.

distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer's defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.

sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;

The Alchemy of Grief

Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or

There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and your first-timer.

All recipes are spells and all cooks are witches.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

The purpose of Alchemy is to liberate the whole individual which is hidden in the darkness, threatened by the rational and correct conduct of life, consequently experiencing themselves as hindered and on the wrong path.

In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own childhood.

The basic formula for profound alchemical change is solve et coagula, which means: to first utterly dissolve (solve) an existing form and then to carefully bring the dissolved and purified elements together again (coagula) in a whole new, more potent and finely organized, permutation.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.

can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.

Who can ever hold the essence of fire? Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.