Alchemy Quotations

'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it.

It is alchemy in reverse: the golden rule has turned to dross in his hands

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

It's alchemy and chemistry and farming and hard work. Really hard work.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.