Quotes by Hocus Pocus The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus. Anuj hocus-pocus focus people Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too. Carl L. Becker hocus-pocus mind giving The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science. Charles Macklin hocus-pocus law I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus. David hocus-pocus focus heard 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-pocus nicknames people Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut hocus-pocus imperfection character If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. Kurt Vonnegut hocus-pocus scary facts Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise. Kurt Vonnegut hocus-pocus beer people I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. Kurt Vonnegut hocus-pocus heard thinking 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 hocus-pocus saws men An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! Richard P. Feynman hocus-pocus fool ordinary I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying. Screamin' Jay Hawkins hocus-pocus halloween lying