A Quote by John Steinbeck

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

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John Steinbeck
American - Author
February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968

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

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

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

I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I’m a cat. (Ravyn) I suppose it’s a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Anuj

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

Tupac Shakur

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

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

David

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

Sean Murray

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

H. L. Mencken

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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