Magic Quotes
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Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.
Ricky Jay
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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
William S. Burroughs
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With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic.
Michael Jackson
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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
Sigmund Freud
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Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of 'Grey's,' an e-mail once a month or so and just say, 'Hey, I love you and thank you.' That was my moment. Because of that, I'm doing 'Magic City.'
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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So much magic lies beyond our fears.
Kathryn Budig
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If the play works in an emotional and engaging way purely from what's on the page, then what's on the stage will be the icing on the cake. If the play didn't work as a play on its own terms, none of the magic, none of the special effects or theatricality of it all, would add up to anything.
Colin Callender
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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.
Catherynne M. Valente
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It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Nick Harkaway
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I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of mad right before a take, and then it just settles, and you've got these two minutes of a bit of magic. I just love that in film.
Saoirse Ronan
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I love the magic of the studio.
Graham Coxon Blur
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.
Erno Rubik
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Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.
Harry Houdini
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Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?
Carol Plum-Ucci
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If my Catholic boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that Mommy is one of God's chosen people, and Daddy believes that Jesus is magic!
Sarah Silverman
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Radio comes to us ostensibly with person to person directness that is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it is really a subliminal echo chamber of magic power to touch remote and forgotten chords. (p. 302).
Marshall McLuhan
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Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
Esther M. Friesner
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This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.
Terence McKenna
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The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.
Raymond E. Feist
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I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.
Steve Valentine
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There is love inside this madness. We are walking on the moon. Though I don’t believe in magic, I believe in me and you.
Beatrice Miller
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Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn't mean that ALL Magic is bad?
Cressida Cowell