Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Bennett

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

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

Eli Wallach

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it

Edward Witten

M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Charles Bukowski

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

Jamie Cullum

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

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.

Alan Kay

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

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.

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Camille Paglia

The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.

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.

Nnedi Okorafor

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

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.

Bernard Cornwell

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

Carl Jung

Magic is the science of the jungle.

John Lasseter

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

It's really the next generation. It ought to be a magic bullet.