Magic Quotes
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working 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.
Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it.
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.
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
Maybe it was magic. I was really prepared for everything. I knew I had to go for every shot, but I also think for her it wasn't really easy when she saw I was running and putting everything back too.
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.
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
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.
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.
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.
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.
The lights, the music, the stage, and the crowd – putting it all together – magic in the making
But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.
Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?
Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.