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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it Its mystery isits life.We must not let indaylight uponmagic.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.
[J K] Rowling speaks to an adult generation that hasn't known and doesn't care about mystery. Theyare inhabitants of urban jungles, not of the real wild. They don't have the skills to tell ersatz magic from the real thing, for as children they daily invested the ersatz with what imagination they had.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
When I first heard Charlie Parker, I said,'That's how our music should be played.' After we got it together, yeah, I knew we were making something new. It was magic. Nobody on the planet was playing like that but us.
To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Feware wholly dead: Blow on a dead man's embers And a live flame will start.
This pen's all I have of magic wand.
[There is] a delusion that macro-economics is both viableanduseful (a delusionencouraged by its extensive use of mathematics, which must always impress politicians lacking any mathematical education, and which is really the nearest thing to the practice of magic that occurs among professional economists).
O gentle Faustus, leave this damne' d art, This magic, that will charm thy soul to hell.
Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
When State Magic fails unofficial magic becomes stronger.
J'ai fait la magique e tude Du Bonheur, que nul n'e lude. I studied the magic lore of Happiness Which no one can escape.
As Michael read the Gaelic scroll It seemed the story of the soul; And those who wrought, lest there should fail From earth the legend of the Gael, Seemed warriors of Eternal Mind Still holding in a world gone blind, From which belief and hope had gone, The lovely magic of its dawn.
The notion of a defence that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic in the President's vision.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine, now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
He did not, even in his extremity, quite abandon his faith in the magic of official forms. In bumf lay salvation.
The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelota magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.
Eisenhower hasa magic in American politics that is peculiarly his: he makes people happy.
All fiction is for me a kind of magic and trickerya confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
Women have served all these centuries as looking- glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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