Magic Quotes

I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

You want magic to feel real.

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.

I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens.

I don't think there's really observational magic.

It seems like magic is something kids start really young.

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he’d brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

I slather Egyptian Magic cream all over my face on overnight flights to keep my skin hydrated.

If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer.

Everyone deserves a shot....and some deserve to be shot.

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

The part about me being an 'okay sorcerer'? 'Not great'? No I believe I missed that. -Lucas Cortez (Dime Store Magic)

That's the magic of revisions - every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina.

Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.