Bordwell And Thompson Quotes & Sayings

What was magic, after all, but something that happened at the snap of a finger? Where was the magic in that? It was mumbled words and weird drawings in old books, and in the wrong hands it was as dangerous as hell, but not one half as dangerous as it could be in the right hands. The universe was full of the stuff; it made the stars stay up and the feet stay down.

But what was happening now . . . this was magical. Ordinary men had dreamed it up and put it together, building towers on rafts in swamps and across the frozen spines of mountains. They'd cursed and, worse, used logarithms. They'd waded through rivers and dabbled in trigonometry. They hadn't dreamed, in the way people usually used the word, but they'd imagined a different world, and bent metal around it. And out of all the sweat and swearing and mathematics had come this . . . thing, dropping words across the world as softly as starlight. — Terry Pratchett

Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me. — LeBron James

But this feeling with him...Severine closed her eyes and drank the moment in. Some things didn't come naturally for Severine. Yet, right now, it all flowed perfectly. This moment was written before it had ever begun. It was meant for her. — Calia Read

The worst decision is indecision. — Ryan Harwood

Why argue about things you can't prove? — William Ruckelshaus

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin. — Maggie Stiefvater

Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this. — Bae Doona

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. — Pope John Paul II

Having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless. — Hanya Yanagihara