Magic Quotes

I go forth to seek - To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

Anna Akhmatova
- Magic
- Garden
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Ben Okri
- Time
- Great
- True

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Antoine Fuqua
- Why
- Magic
The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to his death in 1987 at the age of sixty-three.

Darryl Pinckney
- Up
- Age
- Death
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Caroline Gordon
- World
- Book
- Magic
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor
- Heart
- Hope
- Light
Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.

Clive Sinclair
- Night
- Dog
- Texas
Don't ripen picked tomatoes in the sun. Put underripe tomatoes and stone fruits in a paper bag in cool, dark place, and magic happens. And never, ever store them in the fridge: they turn mushy and flavorless.

Andrew Zimmern
- Cool
- Dark
- Sun