Magic Quotes

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

I knew I should have cleaned that musket!

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.