Religio Medici
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
Burnham Daniel H. 1846-1912
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood ... Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
Chandler Raymond 1888-1959
The Long Good-bye
Love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girl's clothes off.
Clarke Arthur C. 1917-
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Johnston Jennifer 1930-
Perhaps I take the state of innocence very seriously because it is a state of magic. The loss of that state is what turns us into adults.
Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946
Essays in Biography ‘Mr Lloyd George'
This extraordinary figure of our time, this siren, this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity.
Leigh Vivien 1913-1967
in A Streetcar Named Desire
"I don't want realism - I want magic."
Lindbergh Anne Morrow 1906-
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Mercer Johnny 1909-1976
That old black magic.
Nin Anaïs 1903-1977
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 it.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Tempest
But this rough magic
I here abjure ...
...I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
Szasz Thomas 1920-
The Second Sin ‘Science and Scientism'
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.
Washington Ned 1901-1976
„My Foolish Heart"
There's a line between love and fascination
That's hard to see on an evening such as this,
For they both give the very same sensation
When you're lost in the magic of a kiss.
Barthes Roland 1915-1980
Mythologies ‘La nouvelle Citroën'
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
Morgan Charles Langbridge 1894-1958
(attributed)
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.