Magic Quotes

• Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Magic
  • Golf
  • Surfing

• Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Air
  • Magic
  • Mountains

• Lack of subtlety, that’s how you beat magic.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Magic
  • Beat
  • Subtlety

• I have written two books that have to do with fairy godmothers: 'The Magic Touch' and 'Wishing on a Star.'

  

  Jody Lynn Nye
  • Star
  • Magic

• Life is going by, and if you don't do something about your dreams and make them a reality and start to love who you are as yourself, then you will not be able to embrace any of those dreams. Who you are is the immense magic.

  

  Ellen Greene
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Magic

• I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • Magic

• I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'

  James Tate
  • Writing
  • Magic
  • Mountain

• Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Think
  • Magic
  • Goals

• Having something to look forward to is like having a little bit of magic in your pocket.

  

  Ian Bohen
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Having

• Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.

  

  David Cohen
  • Community
  • Magic

• We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Why
  • Home
  • Travel

• I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Comedy
  • Juggling
  • Banjos

• For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.

  

  Cynthia Leitich Smith
  • Writing
  • Magic

• It's hard: you get older, you have a career, the normal frustrations that come with what you do when you wear your heart on your sleeve and you try really heard. I was exhausted, and I couldn't quite see the magic of creating at that time. That's all. I couldn't get into it, and Andy [Kim] slowly resuscitated me, and that's how I made Darlings.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Frustration

• Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Country
  • Spring
  • Cities

• A soul living in tune with its internal purpose is bound to create utter magic.

  

  Drew Chadwick Emblem3
  • Soul
  • Purpose
  • Internals

• That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Bryan Magee
  • Why
  • May
  • Interesting

• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Magic
  • Genius
  • Indecision

• My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Music
  • House
  • Magic

• Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Up
  • Different
  • Focus

• There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.

  

  Bert Stern
  • Search
  • Sexuality
  • Marilyn Monroe

• My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Free
  • Technology
  • Magic

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