Tom Robbins Quotes

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Hogwarts is comforting.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

I put the ick in magic.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and abhorrent in Merlin. They're actually a joy to ride on the tailcoats of.

Merlin is really at the forefront, in that regard. We get a glimpse into the dark, Machiavellian corridors of power. I like the fact that, although he has powers, his powers are almost in his political guile as much as what he relies on, in darker forces.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

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.

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.