John Sterling Quotes

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

John Sterling

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Cancer

• I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Think
  • Try
  • Supernatural

• A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Child
  • Find
  • Fight

• Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Light

• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Religion
  • Superstition

• If anything extraordinary seems to have happened, we can always say that we have been the victims of an illusion. If we hold a philosophy which excludes the supernatural, this is what we always shall say.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Supernatural

• They men have corrupted this God's supernatural order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Supernatural

• When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Lawyer
  • Supernatural

• I have always loved westerns... supernatural westerns in particular. One of my first professional short story sales was a horror/western story. It wasn't so great, though, so I'm glad the magazine folded before it saw print.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Great
  • Professional
  • Sales

• The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • God
  • Church
  • Spiritual

• When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.

  

  Corneille Ewango
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Plant

• I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

  

  Alison Weir
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Supernatural

• Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Time
  • God
  • History

• Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Period
  • Luck
  • Supernatural

• Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mean
  • Couple
  • Bows

• I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Up
  • Intimacy

• I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Teacher

• Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Home
  • Infinite
  • Nursery

• Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

  

  John Sterling
  • Supernatural
  • Superstition
  • Bows