Celia Rees famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.
-- Celia Rees

#Black #Legends #Cloaks
Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.
-- Celia Rees

#Done #Today #Tomorrow
In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...
-- Celia Rees

#Rags #Three #Velvet
Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.
-- Celia Rees

#Lying #Mind #Way
It is no good wishing for what was not to be.
-- Celia Rees

#Wish
Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.
-- Celia Rees

#Harm #Cures #Heal
There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.
-- Celia Rees

#Stars #Flower #Hands
Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.
-- Celia Rees

#Fall #Light #Blood
You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
-- Celia Rees

#Sea #Pirate #Luck

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designerâ€™s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.
I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

Celia Rees famous quotes

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