Magic Quotes

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

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • World
  • Real
  • Sad

• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Want
  • Tricks
  • Card

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• 'It’s magic,' the chief cook concluded, in awe.'No, not magic,' the ship’s doctor replied. 'It’s much more. It’s mathematics.'

  

  David Brin
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Together

• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Road
  • Moment

• I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Mind
  • Technology
  • Magic

• I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Work
  • God
  • Magic

• I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Love
  • Magic
  • Ventriloquism

• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Performance

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Magic

• Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Actor
  • Favorite
  • Idols

• The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art

• The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

  

  John Muir
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Hand

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Art
  • Together

• Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • American
  • Magic

• Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • She
  • Knowledge

• Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Men
  • Together

• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Best
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

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