“Magic doesn't happen often — not once in a blue moon … I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.”

“It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

“Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”

Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) Italian philosopher

“It’s magic,” the chief cook concluded, in awe.
”No, not magic,” the ship’s doctor replied. “It’s much more. It’s mathematics.”

David Brin book Glory Season

“The power of memory - magic- myth - abstract beauty. I paint pictures that have never been seen before. Visions of another world. At once sensuous and intellectual.”

Stefan Szczesny (1951) German painter and sculptor

“The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.”

Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893–1986) American writer

“Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

“Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

“The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

“Dawns and sunsets. The Magic Hour -- when the sun and the moon can be in the sky at the same time -- a magic and disturbing occurrence for a child. And for an adult.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director