Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanine Basinger

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

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.

Irene Dunne

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

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.

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

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Warren G. Bennis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Saint Augustine

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Saint Augustine

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Saint Augustine

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Zachary Quinto

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

Zach Braff

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

William Feather

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Aldous Huxley

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Alexander Pope

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

Alexander Pope

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

Alex Kapranos

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

Debbie Ford

If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.

E. L. James

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

E. L. Konigsburg

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.