Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Serling

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

Sandy Koufax

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

Ricky Jay

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

Ric Ocasek

Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

Richard Roeper

The magic gets lost in translation.

Vikas Swarup

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

Robert James Waller

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Warren Ellis

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

Walter Bagehot

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Ryan Tedder

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

Valerie Solanas

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

Van Jones

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

Tim Berners-Lee

When you understand things, there’s no more magic,

Thomas Bangalter

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Sam Neill

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

Sally Field

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Stone Gossard

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Steve Jobs

When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.

Molly Sims

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

Peace Pilgrim

There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

Peter Straub

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

Peter Travers

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

Phil Collins

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

Peter S. Beagle

What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Sean M. Carroll

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

Shyam Selvadurai

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

Shunryu Suzuki

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

Shunryu Suzuki

The world is its own magic.

Shaquille O'Neal

Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.

Val McDermid

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.