#magi

We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free! ↗

— Kate Griffin

#blue #electric #magic #life

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#imagination #labor #manual #manual labor #poetry

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat. ↗

— Lou Reed

#grabs #magic #night #perfect #perfect night

Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied. ↗

— Maria von Trapp

#exercise #imagination #recreation #age

You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing. ↗

— Mette Ivie Harrison

#fantasy #princess #life

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. ↗

— Percy Ross

#closed #doors #humorous #imagination #minds

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#bit #different #different kind #especially #eye

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. ↗

— Terry Wogan

#expands #imagination #radio #television

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. ↗

— Diane Wood

#constitution #debate #dynamism #end #evolution

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. ↗

— Xenophon

#appointed #aristocracy #complied #considered #government