Roger Shah/magic Island

Famous quotes containing the words roger, shah, magic and/or island:

    Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
    Quentin Tarantino, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Roger Avary. Jules (Samuel Jackson)

    Varis Shah says habits don’t die even if we are cut into pieces.
    —Varis Shah (18th cent.)

    We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.
    Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)

    He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)