#magical

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#full #grow #magical #our #patiently

The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the Cabinet des Fées. Charles Perrault is the French fairy tale writer whom history has singled out for attention, but the majority of tales in the Cabinet des Fées were penned by women writers who ran and attended the leading salons: Marie–Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette Julie de Murat, Marie–Jeanne L'Héritier, and numerous others. These were educated women with an unusual degree of social and artistic independence, and within their use of the fairy tale form one can find distinctly subversive, even feminist subtext. ↗

— Terri Windling

#fairy-tales-for-adults #feminism #magical-stories #stories #education

Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"? ↗

— Bill Willingham

#magical-lands #squandered-opportunity #home

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#magical #surprise #love

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#most #mother #she #supportive #world

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical. ↗

— Ian Williams

#economical #know #magical #nicely #something

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#amazing #did #give #go #going

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#beautiful #catch #did #fish #fog