I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles and hurling salt everywhere.
Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.
I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
Joseph Newton: Don't put the hat on the bed. Uncle Charlie: Superstitious, Joe? Joseph Newton: No, but I don't believe in inviting trouble.
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'
I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.
The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't be all the trouble there was.
Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.
Spontaneous human combustion is for superstitious atheists. I believe in deliberate human combustion.
The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.
God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site
