Marjane Satrapi

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

Iranian Artist

R. Kelly

You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

American Musician

Graydon Carter

Let's face it, who among us wouldn't take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well?

American Journalist

Roberto Benigni

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

Italian Actor

Taylor Jenkins Reid

When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.

American Author

Elena Kampouris

Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.

American Actress

Bruno Mars

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Carnie Wilson

My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

Khalil Gibran

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Lebanese Poet

Helen Fisher

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

American Scientist

Used in fantasy or fairy tales to refer to a magical substance.

Fantasy Genre

Often associated with ancient myths, like those of alchemists or sorcerers.

Mythical Origin

Sometimes used metaphorically to mean a powerful influence.

Figurative Speech

Refers to a liquid medicine in a professional healthcare setting.

Medical Context

More commonly used in the past, 'potion' in medical terms is a bit outdated.

Old-fashioned Term

Typically prescribed by physicians for treating specific ailments.

Prescribed by Doctors

 was not a problem, given the existing regulations of the day. The only thing that the FDA was really interested in was whether you were actually listing the ingredients of your potion on the label. So if you wanted to put antifreeze in your cough syrup, go ahead, as long as you list ingredients on the label. That's what life was like.

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 But more importantly, when kids would tease me, Delphine would beat them up. But on a sadder note, I was spending a lot of time in Tanzania, where witch doctors are saying, bring me the bones of an albino, and I'll make a potion that will make you rich. So we're working very closely with the government there,

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 were trying to create a potion for immortality. Instead, what they created was a flammable powder that burned down many of their homes. They quickly realized that this black powder, which they called fire medicine, was precisely the opposite of something that would make you live forever. In these early days,

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 Alice drinks a bit of her shrinking potion to go in for a closer look. Sure enough, there’s a miniscule gap between the triangles and trapezoids, forming a parallelogram that stretches the entire length of the board and accounts for the missing square. There’s something even more curious about these

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 and the potion settled in its eyes, the dragon sank into a deep sleep. Elated, Jason climbed to the top of the tallest oak, where he slipped the gleaming fleece off its branch. When the king saw the hero sprinting away— not only with the fleece, but his daughter in tow—

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 reality for these women was pretty rough they they were trying to keep their babies fed one of the ways they communicated they held their breasts up and pointed to their mouths and wondered if I had some kind of magic potion or something that would help their milk to

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 Pollution from land can have similar impacts. Just imagine the consequence for that female if her love potion should fail. These are the kinds of subtle but significant impacts we're having on the love lives of these marine life. And this is a species we know

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 I'm kind of nervous I was kind of hoping that I'd get settled in and have one night of feeling peaceful and alright and then deal with it tomorrow this potion is what they came here for it's a mysterious mix of a hundred and nine

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 and the doctor could do nothing for them. In time, the doctor’s potent potion and uncanny instincts became known throughout the land. He grew rich and famous, casting off the hardships of his early life.

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 been accepted by the spirits today I've taken the fetish potion I am no longer a witch nothing will worry me again I will sleep in my room soundly I am no longer a witch

Potion