“Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.” DreamLostMagicChangedLost FriendshipLost FriendBootstraps Author:Peter Abrahams
“When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.” WorldReasonPassionForceImaginationMagicChangedNervesPortraitsThunder Author:Dejan Stojanovic
“The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.” PeopleLittlesStillsHomeChristianChristMemoriesImagineMagicChangedWalkingExpectationsBoundsFairyCartoonBrowniesDisney Cartoon Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
“For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.” MadeLawNightCompanyGoneMagicShareExampleObjectsChangedOrdinaryMade ItSmokeBottlesVentureLampsCarpetPrintedSealsMississippiCharmedInscriptionsArabianJinnArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's magic in the language. I never fell out of the enchantment.” LanguageVoiceMagicChangedMonthsWowShatteredEnchantment Author:Andrew Lam
“We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.” WayKindLittlesSaidMomentsMagicCarFieldsChangedThirdsYeahThumbsBanditsLittle MomentsThumbs Up Author:Burt Reynolds
“Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.” ThinkingWayRealSelfIndividualGrowsImagineMagicCreationChangedDefinitionsValuableOccasionsTransformedAlchemistCrucible Author:Warren G. Bennis