Quotations About / On: MAGIC

  • 1.
    ... effective magic is transcendent nature ...
    (George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 39 (1871-1872).)
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  • 2.
    Magic lives in curves, not angles.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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  • 3.
    Magic time!
    (J.P. (James Pinckney) Miller (b. 1919), screenwriter. Joe (Jack Lemmon), Days of Wine and Roses, toasting himself before a drink (1962). The character says this line twice in the movie.)
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  • 4.
    There be none of beauty's daughters
    With a magic like thee;
    And like music on the waters
    Is thy sweet voice to me:
    (George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Stanzas for Music. . . The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.)
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  • 5.
    Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "History," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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  • 6.
    When asked his view about religion, he replies that he dislikes magic.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Notebooks and Diaries (1837-1838).)
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  • 7.
    Passionate grave thought,
    belief enhanced,
    ritual returned and magic.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Egypt.")
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  • 8.
    ... [photographs] trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.
    (Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. author. On Photography, ch. 3 (1977).)
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  • 9.
    There she weaves by night and day
    A magic web with colours gay.
    (Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. The Lady of Shalott (l. 37-38). . . Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
    More quotations from: Alfred Tennyson, magic, night
  • 10.
    How else can I explain those rainbows when there is no rain, it's magic.
    (Sammy Cahn (1913-1993), U.S. songwriter. "It's Magic," Romance on the High Seas, M. Witmark & Sons (1948). Music composed by Jule Styne (1905-1994).)
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