“Ha!" he thought. “That will teach me to meddle with magic meant for kings! Norrell is right. Some magic is not meant… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I stared in awe as Ferius shuffled the deck, her hands moving smoothly and confidently as the cards flipped around her fingers.… — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all… — Kate Constable Copy Share Image
Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Mikolay took his wand out, touched the cage’s lock and said: “Eis Izras” three times. The door opened at once, unfortunately making… — Magda M. Olchawska Copy Share Image
Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information. “I didn’t… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that he was,… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I always found it a great challenge playing against Michael Jordan, to play against Magic Johnson, to play against Larry Bird, to… — Shawn Kemp Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Grampar’s chair resented anyone… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“You want me to lie for you?" Aidan asked, watching them. " Believe in me, the way you did in my mama."… — Andrea Hairston Copy Share Image
“I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with… — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
“When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only… — Galina Nelson Copy Share Image
“Like wine, Provençal magic had its own distinctive terroir. It was rich and chaotic and romantic. It was a night-magic, confabulated out… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Is she for real?” He paused and reconsidered. “Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don’t get me wrong. I drink… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held. He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“When he reached his own room again, he found Khloe curled up on his bed, asleep. He stood over her, watching her… — Lia Davis Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
