Magic Quotes

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Books may well be the only true magic.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

"¦There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible"”magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Magic Sandra's seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. "”Raistlin Majere

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Only the magic and the dream are true "” all the rest's a lie.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Art is a sense of magic.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

Magic—that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence—a duty and a duty alone—and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches

Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.

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.

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia."

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

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.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

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.

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?