Magic Quotes - page 5

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror-for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them. (H. P. Lovecraft)
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear. View quote
Susie Bright
The magic is inside you. There aint no crystal ball. View quote
Dolly Parton
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled-while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation. View quote
Norman Mailer
It always seemed to me they're sort of alike,” he said, "magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic ... Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. View quote
Julius Nyerere
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior. View quote
Antonin Artaud
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. View quote
William S. Burroughs
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. (Marshall McLuhan)
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it. View quote
Alan Moore
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don't know about. View quote
Chris Colfer
I've come to understand that arguing with her about it has never solved anything. So instead of denying it, I've learned to take her hands, look her in the eyes, and respond with those three magic words that every woman wants to hear: "You're right, sweetheart." View quote
Nicholas Sparks
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy. View quote
David Gemmell
Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. View quote
Temple Grandin
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? (Jeanette Winterson)
And we were lucky because we have a magic mirror in this movie. Not every movie has a magic mirror. View quote
Terry Gilliam
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. View quote
W. Clement Stone
The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words. View quote
Camille Paglia