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“Sometimes magic sounds like tape.”

Sometimes Sound Magic Tape

Author:The Amazing Johnathan

“I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.”

Stills Passion Names Sound Half Magic Realms Fairy Mary

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Hands Fall Sound President Party Magic Taxes Crosses Bigger Boat Voters Fall Back Yacht Delaware Row Boats

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?”

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

“Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.”

People Use Language Sound Magic Comfortable Rational Acceptable Uneasy Estrangement

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.”

May Has Beens Hands Running Sound Water Gone Magic Sweet Flower Elements Shining Operations Prose Verses Gathering Jewels Dew Sparkle

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.”

Way Art Ideas Helping Poetry Sound Magic Awakening Combination Poetry Is Sensations Nevertheless Definite Sorcery

Author:John Banville

“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.”

Source: Oil!

“Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.”

Sound Magic Medicine Invisible

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.”

Wells Art Use Moving Form Sound Magic Creating Art Is Sight Traditional Landscape Combination Colour Gestures Art And Science Invocation

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki