Magic Quotes

• When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.

  

  David Lovering Pixies
  • Party
  • Magic
  • Class

• I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

  

  Q-Tip
  • History
  • Song
  • Years

• Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying.'

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Life
  • Magic

• Usually, when people watch magic, there are two levels: the people who walk away accepting that there are things they don't know, and the other group, who wants to know, 'How did it work? How did that happen?' They want to unravel the puzzle.

  

  Apollo Robbins
  • People
  • Work
  • Magic

• Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

  

  Sarah Caldwell
  • People
  • Magic

• Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

  

  Franz Wright
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

  

  William McFee
  • Men
  • Chance
  • Destiny

• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Accepting
  • Brutes

• 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

• The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Magic

• With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Life
  • Up
  • Girl

• I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Magic

• It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • Singing
  • Magic

• There are many ways to improve your writing. Here's the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Bad

• And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it!

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Get Down

• The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

  

  Duff Goldman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kids

• For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.

  

  Ashley Roberts
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Force

• I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

  

  Lene Hau
  • Magic

• Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Force
  • Midlife

• When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • Magic
  • Blue
  • Teenager

• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I try to transform a dream's magic into reality.

  

  Alberta Ferretti
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Magic

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