Famous Quotes & Sayings

Myrtle Reed

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

Verdine White

The magic and stuff was all in conjunction with the story of the pyramids. You can't just do that kind of thing if it doesn't make sense, tell a story. That was all part of our Afro-centric consciousness.

Philip Guston

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Penn Jillette

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

Penn Jillette

One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

Penn Jillette

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Peggy Noonan

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Paulo Coelho

Enjoy your magic moment today. As it will not be here tomorrow.

Maurice Saatchi

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.

Marcel Marceau

A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.

I told them going into the seventh inning we want to make it a magical season so let's make it a magical first game.

They are part of the magic. They are part of the miracle.

There was magic to that season -- for me, and more for my team,

You're not going to turn this thing around with platitudes. There are no magic bullets.

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.