Conjuring Quotes

• [Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Games, Constant

  The New York Times, December 10, 1967.

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

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Language

  "'Hey, You Can Just Make Stuff Up.' Differences Between Magic And Art: None" by Peter Bebergal, "The Believer", 2013.

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• When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

  Romare Bearden

  Time, Memories, Artist

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• ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Exercise, Imagination, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

  Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Successful, Keys, Understanding

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• As long as you are feeling discomfort within anything, you're holding yourself in a vibration where all of the things that you have conjured, and all of the things that you have let the Universe know that you want, cannot flow to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Long, Feelings, Want

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• Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

  Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Magic, Excess, Modesty

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• The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

  John Wesley Harding

  Reading, People, Problem

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

  Mark Buchanan

  Taken, Expression, Doubt

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• I tell you this: You always get what you create, and you are always creating. I do not make a judgment about the creations that you conjure, I simply empower you to conjure more-and more and more and more. If you don't like what you've just created, choose again. My job, as God, is to always give you that opportunity.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Jobs

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.118, Penguin

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• Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

  John Buchan

  Hands, Brain, Matter

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more”, p.3483, e-artnow

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• language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Language, Form, Reader

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• Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.

  Gotz Aly

  People, Monsters, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you're 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.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Brave, Needs

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• Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

  Howard Rheingold

  Names, People, Patterns

  Howard Rheingold (2000). “They have a word for it: a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases”

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• Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

  Karl Germain

  Magic, Promise, Doe

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• Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

  Steven Millhauser

  Dream, Stories, Tricks

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• When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's all well and good, but it is going to be a limited perspective at that point and time. Occasionally, what I write might read really well initially, but then you change your mind while hunting for locations when you discover settings which offer even better opportunities for drama or dramatic staging.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Drama, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head.

  Eminem

  Rain, Men, Names

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• Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick. It's like, "Oh, my god, how are you going to do that in 90 minutes, as opposed to eight hours?! I've got so little time to do this!" It becomes an art form, in itself. Doing both helps you do each one.

  Steven Knight

  Art, Eight, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Grateful, Two

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• Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's unique. It comes from the unique experience of being Sam Fuller and yes, there's always that element of 'Shock Corridor' hovering around the picture, but never specifically. In fact, I didn't even screen it because it's in us. It's in me anyway. It's in me. It was a way of conjuring up support just by saying the name, 'Shock Corridor,' as I was going to shoot. Poor Sam [Fuller]...

  Martin Scorsese

  Art, Unique, Names

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

  David Jenkins

  Clever, Bones, Tricks

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• Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadvertently acquires the ability to make herself invisible. This is not a gift Alba seems particularly comfortable with, as the last thing she needs is to be heard but not seen.

  Joe Queenan

  Expression, Play, Needs

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• Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?

  Marie Winn

  Children, Games, Long

  Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA

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