Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
Louis Leakey

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Peggy Noonan

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Bryan Magee

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.
Mick Fleetwood

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
Johnny Mercer

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
Stephen Dorff

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
Marshall McLuhan

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.
Cecilia Bartoli

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
Shawn Ashmore

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Dennis Potter

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
Benny Green

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
James Cameron

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters

The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
Bill Bowerman

The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
Ralph Allen

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.
Bill Dixon

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
Paul Hoffman

The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.
Peter Criss