Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Robert James Waller

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Walter Pater

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.

Willie Nelson

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

Zedd

There is magic in patience, you know.

Jean Killy

If you take the quality of the sites, the quality of the sports, you couldn't do really any better than that. For the atmosphere, there was magic here and there, but not everywhere.

His magic is seeing value where others don't.

James Randi

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

Libba Bray

Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

Libba Bray

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

Libba Bray

It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569

Novalis

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

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

That's part of the magic of the game. You never know how it's going to turn out.

Steve Jobs

It's like magic. You take away the machinery, and it's just like magic. It's amazing.

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.

Cassandra Clare

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

Julia Gillard

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Julia Cameron

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

Ovid

There is something in omens.

Kate Bush

There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

Kate DiCamillo

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

Kris Carr

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

Nikki Sixx

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.

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.

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.

Pablo Picasso

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

Martine McCutcheon

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.

Philippa Gregory

In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

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.

Peter Travers

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.