863 – “When I see people working on computers creating animation, it’s watching something magical happening. But I turn back every time to my pencil and paper.”

–Hayao Miyazaki

855 – Quote about your mind

“You’ve been given a mind of your own. You didn’t have to buy it. You didn’t have to earn it. The most powerful and entertaining tool a thing can possess and you were all given one for free. Don’t give it away for someone else to use. Don’t let someone else buy it from you for peanuts. It’s yours. Use it for yourself. It can literally create anything. It does not have the restrictions you have been taught it has. It can comprehend anything. So have fun, and f**k anyone that tries to take it away from you. Fill it with whatever you want to fill it with… and see what kind of magic you produce.”

–anonymous

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763 – “A film is a ribbon of dreams. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world that is not ours and that brings us to the heart of a great secret. Here magic begins.”

–Orson Welles [Attributed]

Today is the presenting of the 91st Academy Awards

664 – “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

–Roald Dahl

466 – “Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

–Albus Dumbledore (Played by Michael Gambon) in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)

420 – “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

–Frida Kahlo

415 – “We do not need magic to change the world we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”

–J K Rowling

83 – “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

– Neil Gaiman

54 – “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

– Carl Sagan [See source note for a link to the source]

32 – “The bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues, and tinges, and every cover is a door that turns on magic hinges.”

– Nancy Byrd Turner