“While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.” MeanArtMagicFindingsCreatorInvokeSupernatural PowersMojo Author:Robert Genn
“What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.” WorldDifferentAliveMagicCommunicationFindingsOneselfContactSpidersFrogsWeavingFinding Oneself Author:David Abram
“I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldnt get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.” BookRememberSidesSeeingMagicBuildingFindingsLibraryScaryIntenseChainedBuilding UpHoudini Author:David Blaine
“The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.” WorldTogetherMagicStrangeDegreesFindingsNeighborShrinking Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic.” IfsKnowsWayDonePurposeCertainHumanityMagicLuckyFindingsLate Author:Adam Rogers
“The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.” RealRealityGoalExistenceAttentionMagicFindingsPay AttentionTragicConsolationCompensationDemonstrating Author:Peter Blegvad
“There's not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you're afraid to look at them when you've got there.” IfsWorldLooksMagicFindingsRingsOther Worlds Author:Digory Kirke
“he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.” WholeCharacterFunSidesChallengesDarkChristianityAudienceMagicModernParticularFindingsLosingDevilAngelBackgroundsHaving FunDualityPaganDark SideBackdropCuspLosing ControlAngel And Devil Author:Joseph Fiennes
“Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.” PeopleJobsNightSongEnjoyMagicPerspectiveFindingsGains Author:Justin Vernon
“Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!” WantWritingLooksLongKidsSchoolBeautifulSoundMagicTaughtFindingsComputerHigh SchoolRainLettersSkinsStartingGlassesFishesCardsGentleReportsSunshineBlondeGod LifeThose You LoveReport CardsYou Re So BeautifulSchool Reports Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
“I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.” WayWantBelieveBookIdeasFacesCertainI BelieveChanceAbilityPerfectOur LivesMagicParticularPeriodsFindingsMeetingsI Believe InStrangerNo IdeaStaringSuitableStrollingAisleBookshopsChance Meeting Author:Cecelia Ahern
“Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.” TryingMindFacesBehindsFocusMagicBloodColorFindingsStonesFleshTrailsWizardsGalleryBrillianceJasonFlesh And BloodHaleyPuppeteerHeadmastersLeicester Author:Cinda Williams Chima
“There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.” IfsHeartLittlesRealSeemsKidsLyingFunParentWonderMagicTreeSpecialFindingsLateHotDrinkingTinyChristmasBrokeHolidayChocolateRatsLittle KidSantaRight PlaceGave UpDecorationChristmas MagicHot Chocolate Author:Laurie Halse Anderson