“Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.” ShowsBlackWhiteTechnologyMagicInvolvedWeaponsMassDestructionHolesHatsFactoriesRabbitsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBasementsScience And TechnologyMagic ShowBlack Hats Author:Scott Ritter
“We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.” EndsEarthHeavenBlackMagicBirthDevilToolsLogicConformityTraitsResortsBlack Magic Book:Complete Poems Source: Complete Poems
“And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.” KnowsWayMayEyeAgeSpiritDesireFeltBlackKnownDarknessMagicYouthBlindness Author:Lord Dunsany
“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.” ArtBlackReligiousPrayerLevelsMagicSacrificeEqualAssumingBackgroundsRitualReligious RitualsBlack Art Author:James G. Frazer
“I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.” NightBlackSeeingMagicDyingHappeningsHorribleBloodyUnclesAuntVisitingHorrible ThingsBlack MagicAunts And Uncles Author:Geezer Butler
“When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.” PeopleNeedsMindBodyActionBlackMagicMusclesSteelResortsWill PowerChastityVigorChasteBlack Magic Author:Honore de Balzac
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenDoeHas BeensSoulBlackWhiteMagicPoetAdultsForgottenBonesPrisonerBlack PeopleDeclineContinentsCowboyWeepingBuffaloSettlersCowgirls Author:Tom Robbins
“It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.” LightFilmBlackWhiteMagicMysteryFeetCarDrivingBlack And WhiteGnarly Author:Conrad Hall
“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.” RealBlackWhiteMagicAirMediaInformationColdUnconsciousPlagueConditioningPsychoanalysisFrostFreezingBlack MagicAir ConditioningSterilizationFrigidityReal DeepDoing Your Own Thing Book:Cool memories Source: Cool memories
“The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.” Has BeensStillsSoulUseForceBlackMagicStonesBreadBlack MagicSoul Force Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.” KnowsWantRealWantedSchoolGuyCausesBlackWhiteMagicMiddleLet MeSouthShirtsTiesNutsPantsThis GuyCreepsUmbrellaMiddle Of The RoadWhite ShirtsBlack Tie Author:Patti Smith
“The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.” ThinkingWorldDreamUsedBlackPowerfulMagicLandYouthSkillsIndiaDigitalSnakesBlack MagicCharmersDigital India Author:Narendra Modi
“What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldTodayHateBlackHalfLordMagicFilledWelcomeBombsAtomsSuperstitionsDoomedRottenMisguidedAtom BombBlack Magic Book:Conjure Wife Source: Conjure Wife