Creating Magic Quotes

#1. Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

Francesca Lia Block

#2. If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

Deborra-Lee Furness

#3. I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

Genevieve Bell

#4. I liked the whole process of creating on set. It's almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting ... all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.

Stephanie Sigman

#5. Like her mother Lauren used to say, books were solid proof that ordinary people were capable of creating magic.

Melissa Hill

#6. Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing

David Blaine

#7. Creating life with words is my favorite magic to weave.

Jen Golembiewski

#8. Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

Billy Corgan

#9. Spiritual Awareness is not gained through the use and abuse of drugs, it is only lost, and for just this lifetime but also for the next and future generations to come.

Richard Rensberry

#10. Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#11. I will spend my life traveling, laughing, drinking all kinds of tea, meeting new people, reading good books, growing things, creating beauty, eating chocolate, doing magic, making love and occasionally I will write something worth reading.

Brooke Hampton

#12. It's a one of a kind, camel-toe couch. For when yoga pants aren't enough.

H.M. Ward

#13. You figure you'll cool it on the time travel for a while. Don't want to see the Dave corpses start to pile up. Especially if one of them winds up being you.

Andrew Hussie

#14. When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through my writing is as close to magic as I'll ever get again.

Dori Ann Dupre

#15. Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

Stephanie Perkins

#16. Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic really is, and that meaning alone is now assignable to the term.

John Nevil Maskelyne

#17. When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.
[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]

Susanna Clarke

#18. Never allow fear to keep you from creating your own miracle. There are unlimited options at your disposal for creating any magical experience safely if you access the wisdom of your heart and make the choice to walk in the light.

Molly Friedenfeld

#19. If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.

Robert Runcie

#20. Below her, fall was just starting to work its magic on the foliage, creating a blaze of rust and amber stretching into the foothills and up the mountains. It was her favorite time of the year and normally she loved this view. Today, it only reminded her of how much she had to lose.

Kate Fargo

#21. A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.

Terry Goodkind

#22. This is the power and promise of science fiction, this magic of creating and living in every possible future.

Kameron Hurley

#23. In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

Ed Asner

#24. To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us to live longer, healthier lives are also creating a healthier economy.

Kathleen Sebelius

#25. In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

Peter J. Carroll

#26. You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.

Lenny Bruce

#27. Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.

Caroline Leavitt

#28. My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

Gore Verbinski

#29. I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.

Chiwetel Ejiofor