Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Carr

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Gregory Maguire

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Harry Lorayne

Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

J. K. Rowling

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

J. K. Rowling

Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

J. K. Rowling

Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

J. K. Rowling

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

J. K. Rowling

Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

J. K. Rowling

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

J. K. Rowling

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

J. K. Rowling

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

Greg Kinnear

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

Gary Gygax

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

Jeanine Basinger

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Hugh Howey

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

Hugh Hefner

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

Mike Babcock

He's got a little magic going right now.

James Bryant Conant

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

James Broughton

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

Irene Dunne

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

Patrick Rothfuss

Science is just magic with better PR.

Paloma Faith

Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

Lev Grossman

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

Margot Fonteyn

Genius is another word for magic.

Maria Edgeworth

Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

Nathan Myhrvold

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

Kenneth R. Miller

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.

Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Lorna Luft

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

Lorrie Moore

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Michael Jackson

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.