Quotes About Conjuring

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

Moonglum licked his long lips. "So it's sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell." Elric murmured for his friend's ears: "No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways. Curb your belly-fear, Moonglum—a little more simple conjuring and Theleb K'aarna will have no desire to retaliate.

Strange began to laugh. 'Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

I invoked you, bribing Fate to produce you. Were you conjuring me? I had no idea How I was becoming necessary, Or what emergency surgery Fate would make Of my casual self-service.

magician, and we can either put a spell

I'm a specialist in black magic

He was trying to conjure up a succubus. It should be impossible to leer when all you've got is a beak, but the parrot managed it. That's a female demon what comes in the night and makes mad passionate wossn- I've heard of them, said Rincewind. Bloody dangerous things. The parrot put its head on one side. It never worked. All he ever got was a neuralger. What's that? It's a demon that comes and has a headache at you.

I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.

where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain

But only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on this dream of community, and it's tantalisingly conjured, before fading away with the last notes.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played.

Magic, whether it's mind magic or conjuring, is about the cheapest and quickest way of impressing people, and I think if you don't grow out of that as a magician then it shows, and people get a bit sick of that after a while, because it starts to feel like posturing. So I grew out of it.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world. Sending a signal to reality's operating system, see?

The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.

When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

The secret of good magic is another magic.

It's hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He's smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

abstraction , n . Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

I choose what to remember, and I am choosing Rhiannon. Again and again, I am choosing her, I am conjuring her, because to let go for an instant will allow her to disappear.

Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!