#magi

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in. ↗

— Benny Green

#environment #even #happen #like #looking

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#any #anyone #cannot #chief #chief executive

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? ↗

— James Thomson

#boast #creation #gay #hers #hues

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#ever #fascinated #hardly #his #imagination

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#authoritarian #believe #cynical #form #heart

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#class #connection #deep #educated #ideas

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#america #built #determination #fear #hand

I know the difference between black magic and white magic. ↗

— Tina Turner

#black #black magic #difference #i #know

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ↗