Magic Quotes - Page 27

• A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, People, Johnson

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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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• It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

  Arthur Symons

  Cat, Eye

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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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• She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Powerful, Character, Clothes

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.34.

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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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• The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

  George Henry Lewes

  Lying, Concentration, Pens

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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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• If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Meaningful, Believe, Reality

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• I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Believe, Hands

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

  Hugh Mackay

  Lovely, Inevitable, Written Word

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• Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

  Gregory Benford

  Technology

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• Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Peace

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• Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Children, Pain, Garden

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• One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

  Freeman Dyson

  Xenon, Memorable, Science

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• The real name for 'science' is magic.

  Harlan Ellison

  Real, Science, Names

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Troublemakers”, p.238, Open Road Media

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• Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Theory

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• Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching is that as your watchfulness deepens, the mind starts evaporating. When the watchfulness is absolute mind becomes nil, a zero. And the disappearance of the mind gives you clarity, absolute clarity, transparency; you can see through and through, you become a mirror. And then life is reflected as it is - not according to any doctrine, not according to the Bible or the Koran or the Gita but as it is. And to know life as it is, is to know god.

  Rajneesh

  Zero, Mean, Mirrors

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• This one guy, the worst guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like a magician and doesn't do magic, I don't like. I don't even like magic, I hate it. But I love the word, "Ta-da"! I love that word! I don't get to say it, right? I never do any magic. You just can't go around walking, "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" The only time I can say it is when I do something really stupid or surprising. Like if I go out all night drinking and hitting strip clubs and I come home and I still got some money... "Ta-da!" I thought I was broke. Why does my jaw hurt?

  Dave Attell

  Hurt, Stupid, Hate

  "Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, July 10, 1999.

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• In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection -quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Knowledge, Mutation

  "Janus: A Summing Up". Book by Arthur Koestler, p. 184-5, 1983.

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• That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to awakening your genius. That special talent you never followed through on might be an important source of delight, the one you should commit to. That old dream might be the one thing that will bring the magic of meaning to your life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Dream, Keys, Special

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• Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

  Ric Ocasek

  Knows

  Ric Ocasek (2012). “Lyrics & Prose”, p.91, Penguin

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• He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rocks, Hands, Skins

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.205

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