Quotes about Magic, page 7

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about magic

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about magic

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

Quote by Whitney Houston about magic

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Quote by Billy Idol about magic

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

Quote by Saint Ignatius about magic

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about magic

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Quote by Michael Jackson about magic

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about magic

I just wish Dick Gregory would stop playing the fool, taking black votes.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about magic

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Quote by Billy Joel about magic

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Quote by Billy Joel about magic

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about magic

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about magic

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about magic

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about magic

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Quote by Quincy Jones about magic

My father worked for Julian Black, the people that ran Joe Louis's life. Joe Louis lived in one of the buildings we lived in.

Quote by Quincy Jones about magic

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

Quote by Quincy Jones about magic

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Quote by James Joyce about magic

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Quote by Grace Jones about magic