#magic

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#fairy #fairy tale #kingdom #lives #lost

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ↗

— Ben Okri

#away #both #common #doing #draw

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space. ↗

— Ben Okri

#great #here #magic #only #our

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. ↗

— Ben Okri

#becomes #hide #magic #nothing

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes! ↗

— Alan Parsons

#any #before #black #boxes #chambers

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alight #almost #become #books #city

Look closely Jane. This is Majesty Park, the city of wonder. Here you are free to dream dreams and follow them wherever they may take you. ↗

— D.L. Alexander

#enchantment #magic #wonder #dreams

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#common #dictate #foreign #individual #magical

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian. ↗

— Terry Southern

#control #damage #doing #finally #i

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#coasters #get #gone #i #i love