M Is For Magic Quotes

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

What I'm talking about is fun. It's every day, it's high energy, and it gives you guidance and healing for your life. It puts a fizz of magic into the air.

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.

...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

The magic word for me is pumpernickel. I love pumpernickel. I must have some Russian blood in me because I could just eat pumpernickel and raw onions.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.

Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.