Magic Quotes - Page 40

• I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.

  Jean Craighead George

  Night, Fire, Light

  Jean Craighead George (1991). “My side of the mountain”

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• I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

  Ann Patchett

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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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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• Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Special, Adults

  "Let JK Rowling's magic dispel prejudice about her 'proper adult novel'" by Maureen Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.

  Monica Baldwin

  Fall, Healing, Autumn

  Monica Baldwin (1950). “I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent”

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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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• As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

  David Blaine

  Pain, Simple, Thinking

  "How I held my breath for 17 minutes". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2009.

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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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• About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.

  Marco Tempest

  Exercise, Technology, Artist

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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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• You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Suicide, Kill Me

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• Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

  David Copperfield

  Opportunity, Wonder, Loses

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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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• I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

  David Copperfield

  Dream, Moving, People

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• Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

  Janet Morris

  Nature, Reality, Risk

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.214, Paradise Publishing

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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 have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

  David Copperfield

  Pushing

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

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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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• Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

  David Copperfield

  Book, Kids, Years

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• 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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