Magical Powers

Famous quotes containing the words magical and/or powers:

“Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)

“... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)