'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What were you chanting when you gave me your blood?” “More of my vampire magic. I cast a healing spell to aid… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all… — Ruth Carter Stapleton Copy Share Image
Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
“For true Magick means "to employ one set of natural forces at a mechanical advantage as against another set"—I quote, as closely… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In California, Jim Jones even staged a shooting of himself. The lesson of this was two-fold. One, that he was a god… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
“I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It's his use of… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Like every New Yorker, I know this place is magic. I know this place is amazing. I know that we have come… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Maybe it was magic. I was really prepared for everything. I knew I had to go for every shot, but I also… — Petra Kvitova Copy Share Image
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is,… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the… — Robin Givhan Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren't quite working. "What's your name?" "Stig." "Stick?" she asked, half ready to believe it.… — Kimberly Karalius Copy Share Image
A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“There are spaces between the events we see where things get past us. Magicians know this too, with their sleight of hand… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“An illusion has three stages. "First there is the setup, in which the nature of what might be attempted at is hinted… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
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