Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Miranda rule has degenerated into being a set of magic words, ... And when we get to trial, it's not so important that the suspect confessed voluntarily, but whether or not those words were said at the right time.

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

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Jamie Cullum

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

Al Yankovic

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Arthur C. Clarke

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Bob Dylan

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Arthur Young

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

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.

Edward Abbey

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Even if it was close, it would go down as a win for the mayor. He still has the magic touch.

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.

Everyone wants a magic button, but it just doesn't exist.

Ozzie Guillen

Every day, it's somebody different. I've never seen a team as magical as this one.

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

There's no magic number. There's not a magic age.

We just track the market very closely. We don't have a magic formula. It's not a science. We just track the futures market and find the most reasonable supply available. We're more sensitive to the (natural gas) market.

Dorothy Allison

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

Donal Logue

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

Criss Angel

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Afrika Bambaataa

I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.

Alberto Manguel

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Alberto Manguel

Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.

Aldous Huxley

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

Albert Einstein

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

Albert Einstein

The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

Albert Einstein

God is a scientist, not a magician.

E. M. Forster

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

Derek Luke

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married