Unmagical Quotes

#1. The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Dylan Thomas

#2. Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve;

Donna Tartt

#3. That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

John Steinbeck

#4. Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

Sebastian Coe

#5. made of stone. It had no windows and only one door, through which you had to crawl.

T.H. White

#6. She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.

Tove Jansson

#7. This is the same power that I feel propelling me forward into the next phase of my life. God saved my soul and spared my life for a reason: He left me to tell my story to others and show as many people as possible the healing power of His love and forgiveness.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#8. If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.

Tammy Kling

#9. Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#10. Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.

Alice Miller