275 Quotes on Magic

• Where there is bravery, there is magic.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• Where there's kindness, there's goodness. And where there's goodness, there is magic.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• In moments of candid lights catching your heart unawares, know that a stranger's smile can open avenues laid silent underneath comfort.

  Author: Elara Sutton

• No risk, no magic.

  Author: Sally Handsmith

• Fearlessly believe in the magic that sparks your imagination and empowers your dreams.

  Author: Harper Hunter

• Where there is kindness, there is goodness; where there is goodness, there is magic.

  Author: Charlie Andrews

• Embrace the unknown, for that is where true magic awaits.

  Author: Luna Stardust

• Love is the magic that transforms ordinary moments into extraordinary memories

  Author: Sophia Williams

• Wisdom is the art of understanding magical connections in the mundane.

  Author: Luna Moonshadow

• Leap with faith into the unknown, for that is where magic thrives.

  Author: Luna Evergreen

• Embrace the chaos of creativity and watch magic unfold.

  Author: Samantha Miller

• Embrace the chaos of creativity, for it is where magic thrives and innovation grows.

  Author: Lily Parker

• Success is not an accident, it is a result of hard work, perseverance, and a little touch of magic.

  Author: Sophia Greene

• Magic is not something you find, it's something you create within yourself

  Author: Luna Silverwind

• Do not let logic limit your possibilities; sometimes the illogical is where true magic exists

  Author: Serena Patel

• Life is a combination of magic and pasta, for both require just the right twist.

  Author: Sofia Loren

• Believe in your own magic, for it holds the power to illuminate the world around you.

  Author: Luna Woods

• Creativity is the magic that turns ordinary into extraordinary.

  Author: Sophia Nguyen

• Creativity is the closest thing we have to magic in this world.

  Author: Sophia Rodriguez

• Believe in the magic within your soul, it will light the path to your true destiny.

  Author: Sophia Banks

• The world is full of magic, waiting for those who dare to seek it.

  Author: Luna Lovegood

• The world is full of magic, just waiting for our senses to perceive it.

  Author: Emily Johnson

• Embrace the chaos of life and watch magic unravel before your very eyes.

  Author: Sophia Harper

• Turning imagination into reality is the true magic of creativity.

  Author: Ava Evans

• Believe in the magic within you, for it holds the power to move mountains.

  Author: Luna Dawnsong

• Embrace the chaos of creativity; it's where magic is born.

  Author: Aurora Clark

• Embrace the unknown for it is where growth thrives and magic happens.

  Author: Isabella Martinez

• Do not be afraid of the unknown, for that is where growth and magic reside.

  Author: Sarah Evans

• Embrace the chaos of your creativity; it is where magic and innovation collide.

  Author: Aurora Knight

• Magic is summoned through courage, not incantations.

  Author: Lyra Fenn

• Embrace the chaos of creativity; it's where magic happens.

  Author: Sophia Reynolds

• Success is not about luck, it's about hard work, perseverance, and a little bit of magic sprinkled in between.

  Author: Sophia Davis

• Creativity is where reality and imagination meet to create magic.

  Author: Rachel Johnson

• Believe in the magic of small moments, for they have the power to shape your destiny.

  Author: Sophia Williams

• Love is the closest thing we have to magic in this world.

  Author: Sophia Garcia

• Magic changes reality by making the impossible possible.

  Author: Stella Rodriguez

• Embrace the unknown, for in it lies endless opportunities for growth and magic.

  Author: Elena Rodriguez

• The most powerful magic is the truth we hold within ourselves.

  Author: Grace Windsor

• Magic is not about tricks, it's about awakening the wonder within us all.

  Author: Luna Reyes

• The universe is full of magical things waiting to be discovered.

  Author: Alice Hoffman

• Magic is found not in the sleight of hand, but in the sincerity of heart.

  Author: Evelyn Rivera

• The world is full of magic for those who have the courage to believe in the impossible

  Author: Sophia Reynolds

• Seek adventure in the unknown, for that is where the magic happens.

  Author: Jasper Stone

• Magic is not just pulling rabbits out of hats, it's about feeling the wonder of the unknown

  Author: Luna Night

• Find adventure in the unknown and embrace the magic of spontaneity

  Author: Isabella Diaz

• We carry within us the magic of endless possibilities, it's up to us to unlock it.

  Author: Sofia Castaneda

• Magic is just science that we have yet to understand.

  Author: Ella Wright

• Embrace the magic within you and watch the world spark to life.

  Author: Luna Bright

• Embrace the magic of uncertainty, for it holds the key to endless possibilities.

  Author: Sophia Hernandez

• Creativity is where magic and logic meet to create poetry.

  Author: Alicia White

• The world is full of magic, if we only who how to look for it.

  Author: Alice Hoffman

• Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

  Author: Hermione Granger

• The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

  Author: Walter Anderson

• Where there is kindness, there is goodness, and where there is goodness, there is magic.

  Author: Alice Hoffman

• Where there is love, there is magic that transcends all boundaries.

  Author: Sophia Patterson

• Where there is kindness, there is goodness. And where there is goodness, there is magic.

  Author: Jennifer Lawrence

• Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.

  Author: Albus Dumbledore

• Embrace the power within you, for it is your greatest weapon against the darkness.

  Author: Cassandra Clare

• Embrace the unknown, for it is where true growth and magic lie.

  Author: Jennifer Lopez

• Embrace the magic within you, for it holds the power to illuminate even the darkest corners of the world.

  Author: Serena Singh

• I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

• 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.

  Author: Terri Windling

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

  Author: Dar Williams

• One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• There's only one word for that - magic darts!

  Author: Sid Waddell

• When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

  Author: Bob Verdi

• When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

  Author: Nia Vardalos

• I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

  Author: Tina Turner

• There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

  Author: Mark Thomas

• Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

  Author: Max Sydow

• You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

  Author: Patrick Swayze

• The world is its own magic.

  Author: Shunryu Suzuki

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  Author: W. Stone

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

  Author: Danielle Steel

• Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

  Author: Nick Stahl

• Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

  Author: Rick Springfield

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

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  Author: Warren Spahn

• When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

  Author: Terry Southern

• People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

  Author: Paul Simon

• So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• 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.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• 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.

  Author: John Sexton

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

  Author: John Sexton

• There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

  Author: Jose Santos

• I really don't believe in magic.

  Author: J. Rowling

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

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

  Author: Nora Roberts

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

  Author: Tom Robbins

• My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

  Author: Alan Rickman

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

  Author: Boyd Rice

• There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

  Author: Lou Reed

• Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

  Author: Lou Reed

• There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• 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.

  Author: J. Priestley

• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Author: Colin Powell

• The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

  Author: Dennis Potter

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

  Author: Tom Peters

• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

  Author: Norman Peale

• Imagination is the true magic carpet.

  Author: Norman Peale

• There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

  Author: Norman Peale

• 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.

  Author: Ann Patchett

• Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

  Author: Alan Parsons

• 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.

  Author: Sara Paretsky

• Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

  Author: Mohammed Pahlavi

• I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

  Author: Roy Orbison

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

  Author: Eugene O'Neill

• Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

  Author: Ben Okri

• Nature is a petrified magic city.

  Author: Novalis

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

  Author: Peggy Noonan

• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Author: Anais Nin

• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

  Author: Vladimir Nabokov

• 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.

  Author: C. Myers

• 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.

  Author: Ellen Muth

• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

  Author: Louis Mumford

• 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.

  Author: John Mortimer

• By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

  Author: Marvin Minsky

• If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

  Author: Hayley Mills

• I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

  Author: Duane Michals

• That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

  Author: Johnny Mercer

• 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.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

  Author: Bill McCartney

• 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.

  Author: Brian May

• How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

  Author: Henry Martyn

• It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

  Author: James Marsters

• It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

  Author: Merrill Markoe

• Music is the strongest form of magic.

  Author: Marilyn Manson

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

  Author: Thomas Mann

• Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

  Author: Bryan Magee

• Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• 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.

  Author: Donal Logue

• 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.

  Author: Phil Lesh

• 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.

  Author: Jay Leno

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

  Author: Blaine Lee

• Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

  Author: Louis Leakey

• Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• Magic, like technology, is a tool.

  Author: Mercedes Lackey

• 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.

  Author: Stanley Kubrick

• If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

  Author: Sandy Koufax

• I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

  Author: David Knopfler

• 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.

  Author: David Knopfler

• Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.

  Author: Don King

• Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

  Author: Jason Kidd

• 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.

  Author: Jackie Kennedy

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

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

  Author: Maynard Keenan

• There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

  Author: Lloyd Kaufman

• Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

  Author: Jon Jovi

• There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

  Author: James Jones

• 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.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• 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.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

  Author: Javan

• 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.

  Author: Jacky Ickx

• So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

  Author: Charlie Hunter

• I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

  Author: Anthony Hopkins

• 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!

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

  Author: Hans Hofmann

• The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.

  Author: Paul Hoffman

• Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

  Author: Alice Hoffman

• They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

  Author: Alice Hoffman

• 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.

  Author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer

• Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.

  Author: Andy Hertzfeld

• I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

  Author: Andy Hertzfeld

• 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.

  Author: John Hench

• If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

  Author: Neil Harris

• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

  Author: Keith Haring

• 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.

  Author: Laurell Hamilton

• It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

  Author: Conrad Hall

• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  Author: Gary Gygax

• The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

  Author: Philip Guston

• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

  Author: Philip Guston

• After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

  Author: Rupert Grint

• I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

  Author: Rupert Grint

• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  Author: Zane Grey

• The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

  Author: Benny Green

• People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Author: Martha Graham

• A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

  Author: Caroline Gordon

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

  Author: Johann Goethe

• The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

  Author: Jose Gasset

• Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

  Author: Jose Gasset

• There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

  Author: Michael Gambon

• Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

  Author: Antoine Fuqua

• Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

  Author: Margot Fonteyn

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

  Author: Mick Fleetwood

• A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

  Author: Harvey Fierstein

• Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

  Author: Leslie Fiedler

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

  Author: Sherilyn Fenn

• 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.

  Author: Brian Eno

• 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.

  Author: Brian Eno

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  Author: Ralph Ellison

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

  Author: Loren Eiseley

• Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

  Author: Charles Eames

• Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

  Author: Wayne Dyer

• Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

  Author: John Dyer

• I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

  Author: Katherine Dunn

• I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

  Author: Illeana Douglas

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

  Author: Donald Douglas

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Dorff

• Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

  Author: Scott Dixon

• The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

  Author: Bill Dixon

• The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

  Author: Danny DeVito

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

• Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

  Author: Aleister Crowley

• The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.

  Author: Peter Criss

• I love the magic of the studio.

  Author: Graham Coxon

• 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.

  Author: Deborah Cox

• The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

  Author: Rob Corddry

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

  Author: Francis Coppola

• Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

  Author: David Copperfield

• The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

  Author: David Copperfield

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

  Author: Mason Cooley

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Author: Arthur Clarke

• My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

  Author: Angela Carter

• I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

  Author: Humphrey Carpenter

• The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

  Author: Humphrey Carpenter

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

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

  Author: James Cameron

• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  Author: James Cameron

• 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.

  Author: Lance Burton

• 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.

  Author: Lance Burton

• 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.

  Author: Lance Burton

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

  Author: William Burroughs

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

  Author: Daniel Burnham

• I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

  Author: James Broughton

• For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

  Author: James Broughton

• I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

  Author: Terry Brooks

• A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

  Author: Terry Brooks

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  Author: Jacob Bronowski

• Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

  Author: Susie Bright

• Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

  Author: Jeff Bridges

• Movies are like magic tricks.

  Author: Jeff Bridges

• Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

  Author: Carol Braun

• So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

  Author: Kenneth Branagh

• Art is a sense of magic.

  Author: Stan Brakhage

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

  Author: Sonia Braga

• The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

  Author: Bill Bowerman

• There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

  Author: Allan Bloom

• I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

  Author: David Blane

• There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

  Author: Richard Berry

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

  Author: William Bernbach

• OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

  Author: Edgar Bergen

• 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.

  Author: Simone Beauvoir

• I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

  Author: Kylie Bax

• The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

  Author: Cecilia Bartoli

• People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

  Author: Todd Barry

• I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

  Author: Luis Barragan

• But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

  Author: Robert Barnes

• 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?

  Author: Christian Bale

• But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

  Author: Bob Balaban

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  Author: Walter Bagehot

• To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

  Author: Frank Auerbach

• The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

  Author: Shawn Ashmore

• Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

  Author: Jean Anouilh

• Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

  Author: Aaron Allston

• 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.

  Author: Chris Allsburg

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

  Author: Isabel Allende

• The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

  Author: Ralph Allen

• She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

  Author: Louisa Alcott

• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

  Author: Theodor Adorno

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

  Author: Kathy Acker

• Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

  Author: Peter Abrahams

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

  Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

  Author: Lynn Abbey

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