Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous.… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
“If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
We learned this week that Mitt Romney is building a car elevator in his house. An elevator for your cars. I get… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova. — Casey Dellacqua Copy Share Image
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere...… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I believe there is some kind of magic that comes just from looking at somebody. In the beginning, I called it "Genius"… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
If music ever needs FDA approval in the future, bands like this will be the reason why; Magic Kids' sugar-coated songs paint… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone's ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
When you're 18 and you've made the album of your dreams, you're not really thinking about the machinery that will actually take… — Patrick Wolf Copy Share Image
Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children.… — George Bodenheimer Copy Share Image
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate. — David Blaine Copy Share Image
“Without asking, he moved behind her and brushed her hair over her shoulder. Drawing the necklace around her neck, he fastened the… — Amber Argyle Copy Share Image
The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“But there's magic too. You'll pick that up. It don't take much intelligence, otherwise wizards wouldn't be able to do it.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic. — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
