Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

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.

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.

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

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

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.

Mark Gottfried

You'd like to put some magic potion on your team and have them play like that every game.

Adam Gopnik

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

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.

Albert Einstein

The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

Aaron Allston

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

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.

Doug Henning

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

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

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.

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.

Dwight Yoakam

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Colin Morgan

If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

Edgar Bergen

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

Alban Berg

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

D. H. Lawrence

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

David Copperfield

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

David Copperfield

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.