The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic. Observe! You treat it… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
“And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there… — William Hutchison Murray Copy Share Image
The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
You have to really make sure that every moment means something, and that every moment, there's a purpose for it. And then… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“As if grabbed by strong arms that were not there, he felt himself being lifted. Raising skyward and spinning, he fought to… — Stephen Craig Copy Share Image
It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Regarding punishment, we've learned from the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and other famous men not only that times have changed, but also… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I believe, or sense, that the universe has not been constructed from a purely mechanical, logical, rational point of view, but there… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens.… — Regina Hall Copy Share Image
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet,… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be,… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Celtic 'is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come . . .… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know. You feel it too.” The bearded man inhaled deeply, not minding the stench of the beast before him. “Can… — Alexandra Casavant Copy Share Image
“…though he no longer wanted to be a magician, he still had magic in his hands. I knew because when he squeezed… — Dinah Jefferies Copy Share Image
The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“I asked Mr. Thurston to tell me the secret of his success... Thurston had a genuine interest in people. He told me… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but… — Richard Berry Copy Share Image
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for… — Eike Batista Copy Share Image
“Fox is a television character, and she isn’t dead yet. But she will be, soon. She’s a character on a television show… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“You know on crime shows where they put a sample in a machine, push a button, and it magics them up a… — Bella Bancroft Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
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