Susannah Cahalan Quotes

I think it's an actor's gift to be as old as people think you are.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I believe people can move things with their minds.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.

The power of the mind. Basically, being able to control anyone's mind. That would be a very good power.

I was the kid who was sat in his room, trying to move objects across the room with my eyes or my mind.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of your mind. So what's the magical way of opening or closing that door? Well, to will your body to stand up and close or open that door, that's magic. With the iPhone, it's like you put your intent into it, and it helps you exercise that intent in the world.

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.