Wizards Quotes - Page 13

• Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Book, Character, People

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• And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

  John Mahoney

  Black And White, My Sister, States

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• I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

  Emir Kusturica

  Cutting, Wonderful, Film

  "I will not cut my film" by Emir Kusturica, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2005.

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• I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

  Ali Smith

  Men, Thinking, Trying

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• I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

  David Geffen

  School, Guy, Economy

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• DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

  Gustave Flaubert

  Science, Men, Doctors

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• But I have an African or Indian approach to what I find. I like to make use of everything. I can't bear to throw things away - a nice wine bottle, a nice box. Sometimes I feel like a wizard in Toytown, transforming a bunch of carrots into pomegranates.

  Eduardo Paolozzi

  Nice, Wine, Bottles

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• I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Kids, Home

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

  Sukhwinder Singh

  Blessed, Young, Composer

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Arbitrary, Chaos, Force

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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• It’s not about having a Silicon Valley attitude—it’s about having an entrepreneurial attitude.  It’s about partnering with other organizations in and around your area.  It’s about thinking big with entrepreneurs that sit next to you in your coworking space.  It’s about collaborating with tech gurus, social media wizards and community leaders at cool business events.  It’s the people that make a community an entrepreneurial one—not the location—and it’s up to you to contribute.

  Brad Feld

  Attitude, Thinking, Media

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• The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.

  Laird Hamilton

  Morning, Rip, Ideas

  Laird Hamilton (2010). “Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul (And, of Course, Surfing)”, p.11, Rodale

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• I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Hard Times, Two

  "These Amazing Shadows". January 22, 2011.

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• Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Paranoia

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• . . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe. Our ordinary mind tells us this cannot be, there must be something more to it than this. It must surely be more "glorious", with light blazing in space around us, angels with flowing golden hair swooping down to meet us, and a deep Wizard of Oz voice announcing, "Now you have been introduced to the nature of your mind." There is no such drama.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Drama, Believe, Angel

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• My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

  Rainey Qualley

  Growing Up, People, My Favorite

  "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Character, Past, Games

  Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 22, 2001.

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• How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

  Bill Veeck

  Wisdom, Wrinkles, Sage

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• I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

  Lev Grossman

  Dragons, Cartoon, Phantoms

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Spring, Firsts, Palms

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• I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

  Criss Jami

  Wise, Winning, Funny But True

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

  Ezra Miller

  Firsts, Remember, My Favorite

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

  Helen Keller

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• I'm a season ticket holder to the Washington Wizards, and I love going to Washington Nationals and Redskins games.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Games, Tickets, Redskins

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