Big Magic Quotes

#1. Measure your worth by the dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures." Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

Joanna Penn

#2. The often surprising results of that hunt - that's what I call Big Magic.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.

John Plumtree

#4. What if the cloak wasn't magic at all, like the feather in that story Granny used to tell me about the elephant with the big ears?

Wendy Toliver

#5. My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

Marco Tempest

#6. I don't do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.

Danielle Monsch

#7. If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

Liz Murray

#8. The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.

Gary Keller

#9. The creatures of human myth flourish in Ourea. Trees are this world's skyscrapers. Magic its currency. And while the rest of Earth forgot what it means to dream big, Ourea kept alive its wonder.

S.M. Boyce

#10. Long live the dreamer inside of me.

Nikki Rowe

#11. Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

Bill McCartney

#12. I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.

Dee Williams

#13. Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Anne Lamott

#14. In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.

Jerry Della Femina

#15. How can this be your car? (Nick)
Well, I wrote a really big check that didn't bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened ... the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic. Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011

Amy Hill Hearth

#17. If you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science.

R.C. Sproul

#18. Magic has big sharp teeth. When it bites, it doesn't nibble. It takes big, bloody chunks. So be very, very careful.

William Blystone

#19. The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

Fernando Perez

#20. The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a "right time" for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now!

Paul Gibbons

#21. Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway.

Magic Johnson

#23. There was no point in lying. Despite various sources throughout history saying otherwise, no one can do magic on you just because they know your name. If they could, a big portion of the world's inhabitants would be up to their neck in curses.

Steve McHugh

#24. I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.

Kate Klise

#25. Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.

Jim Butcher

#26. I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

Magic Johnson

#27. But it's still a big fight to get the work you're really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it's a fucking scam of a magic trick.

Brandon S. Graham

#28. Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

Philip K. Dick

#29. You need something more nourishing than the contents of that glass, Mr. Shaw."
His hard gaze met hers. "I know what I need, you presumptuous wench. Now leave, or you're going to get a big eyeful of Gideon Shaw.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. There seemed to be a magic all round that fire of big logs quietly smouldering in the woods upon Autumn's discarded robe that lay brilliant there; and it was not the magic of Elfland, nor had Ziroonderel called it up with her wand: it was only a magic of the wood's very own. And

Lord Dunsany

#31. If there is a single secret, then it can be simply put. Think big, create, plan, rethink (even bigger) then prepare, practice and perform.

David Berglas

#32. So, the MacGregors."
"Yeah." Jane nodded with a long sigh. "The MacGregors."
"I don't get what the big deal is with them," Charlotte said.
"If you saw under their kilts, you would get what the big deal
" Annabelle tried to break in.

Michelle M. Pillow

#33. Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed

Ann Maxwell

#34. And again that big, bushy thing of hers worked its bloom and magic. It began to have an independent existence for me too. There was Germaine and there was that rose bush of hers.. I liked them separately and I liked them together.

Henry Miller

#35. Sandry: "There has to be something we can do."
Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix."
Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.

Tamora Pierce

#36. When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

Patricia Briggs

#37. From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops.

Rick Rubin

#38. All magic has consequences, Rump. Even small magic can have big consequences.

Liesl Shurtliff

#39. Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

Lucinda Riley

#40. God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

Magic Johnson

#41. It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Christopher Bailey

#42. Just what I predicted," he smiled. "Run, little sheep. Run. For soon, the big bad wolf will have you right where you belong," Crispin whispered as he manifested out of the school.


~Crispin~

J.L. Clayton

#43. Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.~Dork Diaries

Rachel Renee Russell

#44. A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.

Sophia Amoruso

#45. The Faerie Courts are duking it out up there, and it's probably going to be very hairy. The Summer Lady is our baddie, and the Winter Knight is her bitch. She has a magic hankie. She's going to use it to change a statue into a girl and kill her on a big Flintstones table at midnight.

Jim Butcher

#46. Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

Vincent Canby

#47. My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

Magic Johnson

#48. Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.

Heather Anastasiu

#49. Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

Rick Riordan

#50. Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother's house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort.

Holly Black

#51. What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

Matt Taibbi

#52. I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

Sterling Beaumon

#53. Tips like that. Wearing necklaces, knowing how to layer, wearing a statement piece. Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic. I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

Molly Sims

#54. Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.

Belinda Bauer