My understanding of voodoo is that it was important to the people who practiced it because it helped them survive. There are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I love that Christmas lasts for so long. And I love that everybody still believes that magic is going to happen. It's… — Damaris Phillips Copy Share Image
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in… — Benjamin Harkarvy Copy Share Image
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
Cus was a master psychologist, manipulator. Don't take the wrong way, because you can be a good person and know how to… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm too much of a coward for plastic surgery, but if I could wave a magic wand and change something, it would… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I remember during the 1970 World Cup, the whole country stopped to focus on the matches. I was nine years old. I… — Tite Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in… — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
“Ghel the gold horned unicorn is empathic and can sense the emotions of other unicorns. A touch of her horn on another’s… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
The challenge we face as a government is meeting expectations - not specific expectations, but the larger expectations: things that need to… — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
I don't want to say too many words about the magic of the Cube, because it's basically a mystery. It's like the… — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
“Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next...how to take over the world?” I asked sarcastically. “Good idea!” Sampson exclaimed… — Jennifer Priester Copy Share Image
This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh!… — John L. Balderston Copy Share Image
“For a moment or two before the spell took effect, he was aware of all the sounds around him: rain splashing on… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“It took place in the midnight in the University's Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience… — Laura Lam Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn’t matter if you make a spell or a plot. You… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
