Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Charles de Lint

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Charles de Lint

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Charles de Lint

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Chris Bohjalian

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

Chris Adrian

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

Caio Fonseca

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Bill Russell

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

Betty White

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

Arnold Bennett

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Antonin Artaud

I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.

Antonin Artaud

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Ed Lee

Tony Bennett, you've helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world.

Arthur C. Clarke

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Diane Duane

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

Diane Ackerman

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Bernard Cornwell

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Alan Kay

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Bill Watterson

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

Betty Smith

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Bill Gates

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Bill Gates

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Bill Gates

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

Bill Gates

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

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.

Brian Eno

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Bradley Cooper

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

Arthur Young

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Edward Norton

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