#wizard

Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dursley #hagrid #harry-potter #humor #pig

Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#courage #dream #fairy-tale #happily-ever-after #haunting

Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#equalizers #jonah-wizard #nellie-gomez #the #equality

(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters. ↗

— Daniel McHugh

#fantasy #magic #warfare #wizards #forgiveness

Don't put your wand into your back pocket! Better wizards than you have lost buttocks from it! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#wizards #funny

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#wizard-s-first-rule #zedd #motivational

In a sense, we here at the FSRI are like giant wizards at the controls of an incredible machine, operating levers and buttons from behind a great tapestry to provide you with the level of motivation and direction necessary for you to succeed! ↗

— Martin Fossum

#motivational

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#freaky #i #i remember #i think #monkeys

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#dissapointment #wizard-of-oz #life