Do You Believe in Magic

Do I really need to explain? Good quotes, good place to put them...sounds like a winning combination to me!

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. -Ingrid
Bengis, writer and teacher (1944- )

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be
educated. -Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me
now--only that place where the books are kept. -John Steinbeck, novelist,
Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

The power to command frequently causes failure to think. -Barbara Tuchman,
author and historian (1912-1989)

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or
any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or
goals are in doubt. -Robert T. Pirsig, author and philosopher (1928- )

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest
Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and
writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it
is with what he vowed to make it. -J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright
(1860-1937)

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. -Susan Sontag,
author and critic (1933-2004)

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual
use. -Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a
free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -Franklin D.
Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the
religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it
makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. -Louis Kronenberger, writer
(1904-1980)

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. -Aldous Huxley,
novelist (1894-1963)

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to
avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness
to expand. -Mark Abley, journalist (1955- )

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get
through, but rather how many can get through to you. -Mortimer J. Adler,
philosopher, educator and author (1902-2001)


Fun stuff, huh?
Well, that's a post in itself, time for some homework, but it looks as though I'll be posting again later. For now, here's my fave song of the moment:


Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart
How the music can free her, whenever it starts
And it's magic, if the music is groovy
It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie
I'll tell you about the magic, and it'll free your soul
But it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock and roll

If you believe in magic don't bother to choose
If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues
Just go and listen it'll start with a smile
It won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try
Your feet start tapping and you can't seem to find
How you got there, so just blow your mind

If you believe in magic, come along with me
We'll dance until morning 'til there's just you and me
And maybe, if the music is right
I'll meet you tomorrow, sort of late at night
And we'll go dancing, baby, then you'll see
How the magic's in the music and the music's in me

Yeah, do you believe in magic
Yeah, believe in the magic of a young girl's soul
Believe in the magic of rock and roll
Believe in the magic that can set you free
Ohh, talking 'bout magic

Do you believe like I believe
Do you believe in magic