Magic Quotes

• Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

  

  Avi
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Duane Michals
  • People
  • Great
  • Magic

• Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Magic
  • Invent

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

  

  David Copperfield
  • Emotional
  • Magic

• The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is not just another car.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • Believe
  • Car
  • Origin

• When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to me - a little taste of magic to it. You have this idea that there are millions, literally, of people listening to it at the same time as you and that little strange telepathy of a feeling that you're sharing something live with all those people.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Done
  • Magic

• Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!

  

  Jack Vance
  • Magic

• The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

  

  Burt Shavitz
  • Life
  • Money
  • Magic

• I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

  

  David Blaine
  • Up
  • Book
  • Remember

• I think when you really adore something, and you've grown up with it, you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Up
  • Magic

• My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

  

  David Pogue
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Magic

• Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Dream
  • Science
  • Reality

• We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Together
  • Magic

• Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Know
  • Logic
  • Algebra

• Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Magic

• For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Morning
  • Magic
  • Christmas

• I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

  

  Paula Deen
  • Good
  • Magic

• When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • People
  • Done
  • Friend

• The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Magic
  • Distance

• The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Magic

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