Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Charles de Lint

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Charles de Lint

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Charles de Lint

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Charles de Lint

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Brian Eno

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Caio Fonseca

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Carl Jung

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

James Cook

We were in disbelief that someone would be that ignorant to do something so flagrant in violation of the law,

Ed Wood

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

Ted Ligety

I was sort of in disbelief that he went off the course.

Billy Knight

Nothing can explain it. You just sit around in disbelief for a while. And then you think of his family.

Stephen Sondheim

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

William Kiefer

Our feeling, in talking with people at the school, was disbelief that she would actually be involved in something like this.

Frances Chaney

I?m still in disbelief that we won the big one.

Ted Ligety

I was in disbelief when Raich went out.

Carlos Slepoy

For now, we're in a suspension of the extradition request,