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.

Craig Heinselman

The real excitement will be when the first face is up and running. That's when the Wow' stuff is going to be appearing.

Chet Williamson

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

Jon Jansen

We've got more work to do. The excitement is fun and it will last for a little while, but we've got some goals that are still out there.

Bertrand Russell

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Daniel Handler

You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

Kevin Corrigan

I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

Sherry Murphy

What a huge opportunity for our community. We're just giddy with excitement over this.

John Maloney

I'm a little disappointed in the excitement about GM closing. I don't feel it, but I know others do. We need to help these people keep their jobs.

Dani Shapiro

I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

Virginia Postrel

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.

Martin Brodeur

People like the glamour and the glamour with Scotty is his hits. That's what they remember. They don't want to talk about him taking the puck away from Jaromir Jagr with one hand or anything like that.

Patty Fox

I think we're going to see a return to the Hollywood glamour era. We're going to see more variety than we've seen in the past.

Nate Turner

People have started to jump on the bandwagon. (But) we don't look at the glamour of it. We look at the part of how it helps the program.

Rick Elice

We never knew their story because they were from Jersey, and because they were blue-collar high-school dropouts ? Italian kids with no glamour quotient at all,

Becki Newton

Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.

Amy Schumer

Let's all just follow the lead of Glamour, and join forces and lift each other up.

Colm Toibin

People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.