Magic Quotes

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

All done by kindness.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation.

The real name for 'science' is magic.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

I don't believe in magic, either.

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.