Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. — Barry Zito
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. — Edmund Burke
Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you. — Scott Cunningham
Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will. — Dion Fortune
Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life. — Christopher Penczak
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. — Aleister Crowley
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls." — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball — Dolly Parton
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
Short Voodoo Quotes
Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about. — Johnny Mercer
I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross. — Emma Watson
Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power
Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex — Kool Keith
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. — Terry Pratchett
Voodoo doll belong in the house of voodoo. — Marie Laveau
I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny. — Drew Brees
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists. — Guy Kawasaki
All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax. — Michele Bachmann
Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now — Rachel Caine
Fine, but I’m not ripping the head off a voodoo chicken or drinking anything disgusting. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Voodoo Image Quotes
Voodoo Doll Quotes
I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse:
Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts. — Pusha T
In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person. — Cathy Hopkins
The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll. — Fergie
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and write a character who practiced that spiritual tradition who was not evil and intent on creating zombies or causing pain through voodoo dolls or whatever. — Jesmyn Ward
Movie Quotes
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself. — Mark Helprin
A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off. — Amy Lee
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well. — Dalton Trumbo
But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in. — Tim Burton
People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop. — Little Richard
Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile. — Jimi Hendrix
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century. — Abraham Flexner
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. — Katherine Dunham
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child — Jimi Hendrix
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried. — Sam Trammell
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week. — Chris Cornell
A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better. — Steven Wright
If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony. — Zora Neale Hurston
I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room. — Elizabeth Lesser
I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo. — Madchen Amick
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. — Wyclef Jean
Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley. — Ishmael Reed
The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro. — R.J. Rushdoony
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done. — Paul McCartney
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there. — Pearl Bailey
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo. — Michio Kaku
We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. Ideas of the Stone Age exist side by side with the latest scientific thought. Only a fraction of mankind has emerged from the Dark Ages, and in the most lucid brains, as Logan Pearsall Smith has said, we come upon nests of woolly caterpillars. Seemingly sane men entrust their wealth to stargazers and their health to witch doctors. Giant planes throb through the stratosphere, but half their passengers are wearing magic amulets and are protected from harm by voodoo incantations. Hotels boast of express elevators and a telephone in every room, but omit thirteen from all floor and room numbers lest their guests be ill at ease. — Bergen Evans
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south. — Jesmyn Ward
My understanding of voodoo is that it was important to the people who practiced it because it helped them survive. There are practical ways it enabled survival. It used herbal medicine to heal, to aid in childbirth. It was a spiritual system. It made room for hope and for magic and for possibility. For people who struggle and fight to survive and who fight to live, those are really important things. — Jesmyn Ward
Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say. — Truman Capote
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen. — Ben Fountain
When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion. — Edwidge Danticat
Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, 'I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight', people would say, 'Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth. — Michael J. Jackson
The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive. — R.J. Rushdoony
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery. — Frederick Lenz
Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. — Karl Lehenbauer
The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax. — Michele Bachmann
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