Magic Quotes: Enchanting Words on the Art of Mysticism

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium"

John Dyer, Artist

"We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish"

John Quincy Adams, President

"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players"

Blaine Lee, Author

"He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him"

Mark Rydell, Director

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment"

Plato, Philosopher

"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement"

Willa Cather, Author

"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

"Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

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