Magic Quotes
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
Lorna Luft -
One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.
Hal Elrod -
Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.
Mikhail Lermontov -
There are two kinds of magic. If you think of it like martial arts, there's sparring, where you are doing it with a partner, and the other is kata, where you're doing an exposition for the audience.
Apollo Robbins
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..to capture the magic of the ambiance. - in the fresco which Goya made c. 1798 of Saint Anthony of Padua
Francisco Goya -
For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.
Cynthia Leitich Smith -
There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
Sarah Addison Allen -
I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
Barbara Damrosch -
We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.
Peter Capaldi -
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
David Mitchell
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de Lint -
It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.
M. Ward -
This man is a legend! And his words weave magic.
Sahir Ludhianvi -
Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.
MaryJanice Davidson -
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
Kenneth C. Griffin -
I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
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O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mindTill it is hush’d and smooth!
John Keats -
The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'.
Marianne Williamson -
All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.
Jordan Ladd -
There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.
Charles Dickens