M Is For Magic Quotes
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.
I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.
I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.
... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.
Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.
I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.
Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.
Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.
The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.
It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.
Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.
It is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have been equally trained and developed.
There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
