Magic Quotes - Page 23

• If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.

  Tony Robbins

  Uplifting, Believe, Ifs

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

  Vlastimil Hort

  Believe, Games, Chess Game

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• In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

  Philippa Gregory

  Wish, World, Way

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  People, Want, Kind

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• My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Light, Giving

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• The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Art, Past

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• Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.63, Macmillan

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• English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Powerful, Believe

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• No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Taken, Might

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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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• And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

  Isaac Marion

  Moon, Islands, Space

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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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• Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look, and I could swear his expression meant, Duh. "I've also discovered a new form of magic called blues music," the man continued. "And barbecue. Yes, you must try barbecue.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Khufu, Egypt

  "The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series". Book by Rick Riordan, July 4, 2013.

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• I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.]

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Cat, Lexus

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• Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie said. "Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water." "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,'" Zia said. "You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Order, Cities

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I seriously needed an extra-strength magic pillow, because my ba refused to stay put. [And no, Sadie, I don't think wrapping my head in duct tape would've worked either.]

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Tape, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.

  Steve Kluger

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Mom, Football

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• Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Baby, Morning

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

  Susanna Clarke

  Lying, Magician, Knows

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.

  Kate Forsyth

  Thinking, Ordinary World, Fiction

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• Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Cinema

  Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio (2010). “Stories: All-New Tales”, p.1, Harper Collins

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