Toni Morrison Quotes

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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

Wonders will never cease.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

I've always loved magic.

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

Nothing is to wonderful to be true.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Do you believe in miracles?

All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.