A Quote by Sean Murray

'Hocus Pocus' has a great following and was a great part of when I was a kid.

Sean Murray

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Sean Murray
American - Actor
Born: November 15, 1977

That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

L. M. Boyd

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

John Richard Green

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

John Arbuthnot

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry!

Richard Cobden

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Charles Macklin

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Jack Canfield

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

Tupac Shakur

Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

Tupac Shakur

The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

Anuj

Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger.

Andre Dirrell

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

Lucretius

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

David

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

John Steinbeck

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

H. L. Mencken

There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other - it's something you have to work hard at.

Naseeruddin Shah

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

Thomas Jefferson

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