Thaumaturgical Quotes & Sayings

Desires stay unaware
of man's fragile existence
authored by scarcity — Suman Pokhrel

I'm writing a book on magic", I explain, and I'm asked, "Real magic?" By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. "No", I answer: "Conjuring tricks, not real magic". Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic. — Lee Siegel

in town. She confronted him and he protested too much for her comfort. Mum had very good intuition, and her suspicions were soon confirmed. — Eileen Rockefeller

Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from the scene that they are directing. Pretty soon the director will be directing all the way from his apartment. — Gordon Willis

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. — Virginia Postrel

All-out. Thaumaturgical. War. And there were of course no alliances, no sides, no deals, no mercy, no cease. The skies twisted, the seas boiled. The scream and whizz of fireballs turned the night into day, but that was all right because the ensuing clouds of black smoke turned the day into night. The landscape rose and fell like a honeymoon duvet, and the very fabric of space itself was tied in multidimensional knots and bashed on a flat stone down by the river of Time. — Terry Pratchett

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike. — Arthur Scargill

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label. — Norah Jones