M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...
Neil Gaiman
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NEIL GAIMAN E c'era davvero qualcosa che si avvicinava dal vialetto, in direzione della casa. Lo vedevo dal bino...
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NEIL GAIMAN A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sin...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sin...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Life is going by, and if you don't do something about your dreams and make them a reality and st...
ELLEN GREENE Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope f...
LAINI TAYLOR The cards give you images and symbols to focus your vague intentions and transform them into action....
THERESA CHEUNG Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
AMIT KALANTRI It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a nove...
SCARLETT THOMAS I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you...
MOHAMED ELBARADEI Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
FOKA GOMEZ Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Is magic not enough to live for?" Widget asks.
"Magic," the man in the grey suit repeats, turni...
ERIN MORGENSTERN May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine boo...
NEIL GAIMAN If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you...
ALEXA VEGA There are just some things that are outside of comprehension, even if we can quantify them. At some ...
JAY HOSKING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
LAINI TAYLOR Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) you will have hope and be made hopeful.
W. CLEMENT STONE We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components toge...
LORRAINE TOUSSAINT Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's ma...
RASHEED OGUNLARU A smile is the best way to deal with difficult situations. Even if it's a fake one. Used properly, y...
SAI I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding h...
JORGE CRUISE If you all agree that these descriptions are acceptable, I will make copies, have them signed and pu...
KATINA WHITLEDGE Each individual factor for weight gain is serious enough but put them all together and you can get a...
DAVID HASLAM Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we ha...
DAVID FURNISH If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.
AMIT KALANTRI We need to get more physical with them because you can't just let them get comfortable. We have to m...
MICHAEL BRADLEY Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit o...
MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exc...
JOHN SEXTON What you need for a pension fund is a steady, reliable flow of dollars well off into the future and ...
BILL BRADLEY The adage I use is of Jack and the Beanstalk, Gulliver and the Lilliputians and David and Goliath. A...
RICK MAGNANTE If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
DANIELLE STEEL 90% of the magic props are of no use...... and you can't do magic with just 10% of props!!
MANGESH DESAI It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.
BROM I always write 'Magic Potion' on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical - I...
ALEXA CHUNG I want to see your dreams,” he explained. “I want to share them with you, and have you share min...
SYBIL SHAE We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN If anybody can have a magic solution, so that all these issues are being dealt with together, equita...
TARIQ AZIZ Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in y...
CHARLENE A. WILSON For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've go...
FIONA MCINTOSH You can make them open with a solid cover so you can put in electrical wiring for a ceiling fan and ...
TIM SHAFFER The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
MAGGIE CAREY Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
NED VIZZINI Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of ...
NEIL GAIMAN Once you start having a few little things happen, I think I said (to them) we just need to make sure...
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CLIVE BARKER There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added ...
BILL TOOMEY What are the two magic words that you can always use to make a shark happy? "Man Overboard!"
ANONYMOUS If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
DANIELLE STEEL Music is a healing force. That's what good art is. That's what art is. I shouldn't say 'good' becaus...
SHAWN COLVIN These letters are all I have left.
26 friends to tell my stories to.
26 letters are all I ...
TAHEREH MAFI I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that ...
ANN PATCHETT I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved t...
ANN PATCHETT She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies,...
MARCO TEMPEST The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like drea...
MUSO KOKUSHI Steve is prepared to give them leadership. I truly believe this will make Steve a better player and ...
JEFF FRIED Magic is just a term people use for things they’re too primitive to understand properly.
JUSTIN RICHARDS I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped ...
JAYSON WILLIAMS Hope is the real magic, child.
LAINI TAYLOR I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I'm not trying to reinvent the...
KEITH BARRY You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
SALLY FIELD If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being abl...
ELON MUSK The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have no magic solutions to offer you, no magic bullets for peace,
IBRAHIM RUGOVA Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changin...
ROBERT FANNEY I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG It's a program that uses magic as a form of therapy for people with disabilities, where magic is tau...
DAVID COPPERFIELD Little angels above delivering magic and dreams
DEBBIE NICHOLSON Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.
LAINI TAYLOR There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there...
IMRAN AMED All those guys, they're winners. You put all of that together, the time is now for them.
DONALD COPELAND Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you,...
CASSANDRA CLARE Everyday holds new magic..& sometimes that's all we need. A little magic & some hope; to free our sp...
TEGAN GENEVIEVE JONES Things are wonderful when we look at them with magic in our hearts.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have ...
BAT FOR LASHES If I always stuck up for what I had, I would have missed the most amazing things I have today. What ...
TONY CURL In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can...
JOHN GROGAN With most birds, if you put them back where the parents can find them, they'll continue caring for t...
FRANCIS MOORE People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really ju...
JOHN SCALZI I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN We're pretty disappointed, but I told them that it's not the judge of the kind of men they are. I ca...
BRIAN NICOLA Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.
NIKKI SIXX The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, ...
KAHLIL GILBRAN Triangle theory, I just founded it before "I" theory. That all letters are build with triangle, make...
DEYTH BANGER There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love th...
JACQUELINE KOYANAGI A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
HARVEY FIERSTEIN I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly beca...
BRITT ROBERTSON Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together i...
LEILA SALES All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them
WALT DISNEY I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really ...
CINDY SHERMAN The only question that got any traction was when he asked Martin what he did. Martin tersely replied...
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NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN