Magic Quotes

"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history"

"We must not let daylight in upon the magic"

"It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more"

Herman Hesse, Author

"There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going"

John Sexton, Educator

"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom"

John Sexton, Educator

"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"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

"When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"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

"Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"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

"It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"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

"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

"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

"We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic"

C. Kilmer Myers

"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school"

Brian Eno, 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

"Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken"

Simone de Beauvoir, 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

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