Magic Quotes - Page 20

• When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

  Greg Rusedski

  Athlete, Young, Easier

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• If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

  Eddie Izzard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Trouble

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped with dual engines, Hector worked during magic or tech. He didn't go very fast, especially during magic, but so far he hadn't stalled on me either. As long as our high-speed chases stayed under forty-five miles an hour, we would be all set.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Jeeps, Would Be

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• Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

  Archie Manning

  Time, Fall, Autumn

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• T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Reading, Literacy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 70

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• Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Eye, Exercise, Garden

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• Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

  Janet Morris

  Pride, Men, Arrogance

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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Learning, Destiny, Fire

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

  Esther Hicks

  Optimistic, Positivity, Optimism

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• Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Ideas, Choices

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• I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

  Marcel Proust

  Giving, Firsts, Losing

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• You don't have to be Magic to be special. You're already special, you're you.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Special You

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• There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

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• This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

  Janet Morris

  Fate, Evil, Giving

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.101, Paradise Publishing

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• Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.

  Susan Cooper

  Uncles, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified to the lopped oak, and watched the dancers, red-eyed from the acrid smoke of the sacrificial fires, stamping out the measure of the dance, their bodies bent uncouthly forward, with a monotonous chant of "Kill! kill! kill!" and "Blood! blood! blood!

  Robert Graves

  Kings, Moon, Fire

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• Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Heart, Science

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.126, Sahitya Akademi

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• There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Black, Wipe

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

  Peggy Noonan

  Speech, Policy, Great Speech

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• I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  People, Forever, Wells

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.168, GENERAL PRESS

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• How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Keys, Car

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• I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

  David Byrne

  Song, Believe, Design

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• Want me to flex my magic for you, baby?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Baby, Want, Want Me

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

  Terry Goodkind

  Hate, Past, Do You Love Me

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