Wizards Quotes

• A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring

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• Nobody knows what the future is, except for wizards.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Nobody Knows, Knows

  "Joel McHale and Gillian Jacobs Talk COMMUNITY Season 3, the Hiatus, Possibility of Season 4 and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

  Terry Goodkind

  Beard, Common, Knows

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.440, Head of Zeus

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• The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

  Terry Goodkind

  Motivation, Stupid, Believe

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• Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

  Donita K. Paul

  Rude, Doe, Strange

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.200, WaterBrook

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• Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles, but these roles are not yourself. The spirit is non-local, but it leaves behind a fingerprint, which we call a body. A wizard does not believe himself to be a local event dreaming of a larger world. A wizard is a world dreaming of local events.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Believe, Destiny

  "The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 1995.

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• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Anger

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)

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

  Jim Butcher

  Mess

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.221, Penguin

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• Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

  L. Frank Baum

  Men, Good Man, Very Good

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• I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Actors

  "I Am Harry Potter". Interview with Judd Apatow, www.funnyordie.com. November 22, 2010.

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• In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

  Billy Joel

  Fun, Alchemist, Way

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• Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Forests, Said

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The wand chooses the wizard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Potters, Harry Potter Movie, Harry Potter Birthday

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• O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

  Charles G.D. Roberts

  Stars, Flower, Dark

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• To the wizard death is merely a belief.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Belief

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.44, Random House

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• The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

  Gabe Newell

  Tomorrow, Programmers

  YouTube Chanel "Code.org" / "What Most Schools Don't Teach", www.youtube.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sticks, Baboons

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• ...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

  Terry Goodkind

  Lying, People, Mind

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, World, Reason Why

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.182, Random House

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• Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

  Diane Duane

  Technology, Wells, New Technology

  "Wizards in a new millennium: an interview with Diane Duane". Interview with Kelly Knox, www.wired.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Once Upon A Time

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• What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

  Barbara Hambly

  Temptation, Hypothesis, Overwhelming

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• Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cutting, Men, Dies

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.369, Bantam

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• It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rpgs, Effort, Magic

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• Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Would Be, Purpose

  "Eric". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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