Magic Quotes
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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Music is Magic. Magic is Life...
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I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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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!
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No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.
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It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
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That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
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I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
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The house of magic has many rooms.
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Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.
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A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
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There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
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"All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.
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The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
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I’m working on several theories,” I said. “But I’m currently favoring the hypothesis that the moon has a seemingly arbitrary effect on magic because it likes to piss me off.” “That’s a theory with a high degree of applicability to other spheres of life,” he said. “Yes it is,” I said, and we spontaneously fist
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
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Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
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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.
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
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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.
