Famous quotes containing the word magical:
“Something magical happens when parents turn into grandparents. Their attitude changes from money-doesnt-grow-on-trees to spending it like it does.”
—Paula Linden (20th century)
“What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peters cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Hunger makes you restless. You dream about foodnot just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mothers milk singing to your bloodstream.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1953)