quotes about Talismans

last updated: November 28, 2023

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
-- Adam Parfrey

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What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?
-- Rita Dove

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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
-- William Cowper

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Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.
-- Rosa Campbell Praed

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“Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.”
“Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.”
“Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.”
“I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Little Mermaid's Faith Prince Plus More Kander/Ebb Memories". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 01, 2009.
“Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.”
“The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!”

Source : "Rick Springfield: The Journey Is Never Over". Interview with Howard Kerbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.
“The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.”

Source : L. Sprague de Camp (1963). “The Ancient Engineers”
“Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.”
“I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.”
“She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at paintings, allow yourself to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her, and love her.”