Magic Quotes

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.

The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.

I try to transform a dream's magic into reality.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

The screen is a magic medium.

Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.

Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.

There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally!

Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.