Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

Terry Pratchett

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Terry Goodkind

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

Terry Goodkind

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Terry Goodkind

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

Terry Brooks

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.

Tennessee Williams

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

Tennessee Williams

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Tennessee Williams

I don't want realism. I want magic!

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.

Marc Andreessen

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

Robert James Waller

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

Walt Disney

There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.

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.

Neil Patrick Harris

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Neil Patrick Harris

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.

Thomas Mann

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

Steve Martin

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Steve Martin

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

Steve Martin

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Steve Martin

Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

Steve Martin

When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

Steve Buscemi

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

Sigmund Freud

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Rick Riordan

If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!)

Rick Riordan

We don’t have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon.” “You’ve got a magician named Mel?

Renata Adler

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.