Famous Quotes & Sayings

Part of the magic of NASCAR and NASCAR racing is the accessibility.

Bill Crawford

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

Carrie Fisher

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

I was up at five, you know, we do have staff problems, I'm so sorry,it's all done by magic.

I think Ole Miss has worlds of potential. They've won there before, and it hasn't been too long ago. There's going to be a lot of work, but there's no magic formula. You've got to be productive every day and work at recruiting every day.

I don't have a magic answer. If you play cornerback in this league, they're going to get you once in a while.

Doug Henning

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

Anton LaVey

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Anton LaVey

Those who spell Magic with a K aren't.

Herbie Hancock

He was a man of mystery, magic and mystique. It was often said he was an enigma. I would venture to say that many who said that just didn't get it.

Herbie Hancock

He was a man of mystery, magic and mystique.

He was the magic that got people there in record-setting time. It is very much his accomplishment.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

C. S. Lewis

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

C. S. Lewis

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

Al Yankovic

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

Aaron Eckhart

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

Dennis Hastert

We need to look at this in a comprehensive way, ... There is no magic wand to wave over this.

Edward Norton

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

Brian May

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.

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...

Arthur Koestler

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.

Edward Abbey

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Ben Kingsley

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

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Lilla Crawford

One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

Alberto Manguel

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Alberto Manguel

Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.

Aldous Huxley

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

Albert Einstein

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.