Pastoral Resources

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.