Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanine Basinger

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Gregory Maguire

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Irene Dunne

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

Hugh Howey

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

Hugh Hefner

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

Harry Lorayne

Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

J. K. Rowling

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

J. K. Rowling

Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dorothy Hamill

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

Donald Miller

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Donald Miller

To change the world you'll need a pen.

Don Richardson

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Kirsten Gillibrand

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Mark Haddon

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Mark Twain

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

Nicholas Negroponte

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.