“A man’s magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I want to bring magic back to where it started, which is not about the props, and it's not about me as… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky, That circle 'round… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities.… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Even the Raven King - who was not a fairy, but an Englishman - had a somewhat regrettable habit of abducting men… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part… — Steve Valentine Copy Share Image
What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and… — Antero Alli Copy Share Image
“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I am possibly the world's greatest magician, because I don't just vanish off stage, I vanish from your memory. I'll bet you're… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“...Moving pictures and flying machines nth seemed like magic at one time. It's not a huge leap to believe that what seems… — Alys Arden Copy Share Image
“Please, let me take you home. You’re drunk.” “I am not.” I shoved him, spilling some kind of delicious poison on him.… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
Such words as amen, hallelujah, glory and others of like sacred association are repeated endlessly and meaninglessly in the apparent belief that… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
The Great Work of Magic is the collapsing of the future into the immediate present; the magician seizes reality and lives now,… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
“Unbelievable,” Gavin said. “There’s a whole legion of magical beings living on Earth and only Aquarians know about them.” “We come in… — Jasmine Angell Copy Share Image
Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“(There was an idea much beloved and written about by this country’s philosophers that magic had to do with negotiating the balance… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Eureka" can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
I did The 'Acid Test' at the Royal Court, by Anya Reiss, who's the most wonderful, amazing female writer. She was only… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
“As rain began to fall, Aldric worried the old machines would not be able to survive the weather. "Hand me that oil… — Jason Hightman Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
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