Magic Quotes
Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation.
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.
If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.
Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.
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.
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.
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.
Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.
When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
Harry Potter has been a fantastic experience and the fact it has made stars of us all is unbelievable at times - it really is magic of a sort.
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.
The lights, the music, the stage, and the crowd – putting it all together – magic in the making
If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.
Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.
Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.
The only difference between people who live in this way... is that the people who love in the magic of life have habituated ways of being
In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.
When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.