#magi

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#after #been #contact #continue #distance

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #children #earth #go #i

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period. ↗

— David Gill

#day #dictated #eight #genuine #genuinely

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. ↗

— William Trevor

#fiction #imagination #indeed #thinking #understanding

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#car #coming #decide #driving #feet

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#efficient #example #face #far #for example

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#closer #fact #imagination #intelligence #love

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ↗

— Don Herold

#fewer #had #i #imaginary #life

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#been #dad #electronic #electronic music #got

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. ↗

— James Irwin

#beautiful #blackness #christmas #christmas tree #diminished