Hilda Lewis quotes

“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.”
-- Hilda Lewis

Source : "The Ship that Flew" by Hilda Lewis, (Ch. 2), 1939.

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“I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air... and your own spirit goes with it.”
-- Hilda Lewis

Source : "The Gentle Falcon". Book by Hilda Lewis, 1957.

#Horse Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes

“There is no magic when one no longer believes.”
-- Hilda Lewis

Source : Hilda Lewis (1998). “The Ship that Flew”, p.80

#Believe Quotes #Magic Quotes

“But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.”

“The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.”

“I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.”

“He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”

“The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.”

“I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.”

“I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.”

“Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.”

“The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.”