Magic Quotes

"When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me"

John Sexton, Educator

"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc"

John Hench, Artist

"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all"

Donal Logue, Actor

"We must not let daylight in upon the magic"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens"

Ann Patchett, Author

"Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business"

Tom Robbins, Author

"If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning"

Dar Williams, Musician

"There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured"

Brian May, Musician

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air"

John Quincy Adams, President

"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, First Lady

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real"

Donald Wills Douglas, Aviator

"There's a certain magic that happens when you're working on a film set, and it's something I'll always be grateful to be a part of"

Camilla Belle, Actress

"When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing"

Greg Rusedski, Athlete

"You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

"You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work"

Greg Rusedski, Athlete

"Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water"

Loren Eiseley, Scientist

"I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity"

David Knopfler, Musician

"I love the magic of the studio"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years"

Brian Eno, Musician

"The theater is magical and addictive"

Angela Lansbury, Actress

"That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is"

Mick Fleetwood, Musician

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"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, Author

"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write"

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Author

"I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person"

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Author

"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around"

Terri Windling, Artist

"But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years"

Phil Lesh, Musician

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