I Want Magic Quotes

#1. There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to.

Gloria Bevan

#2. I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

Kathleen Hanna

#3. I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

Hoda Kotb

#4. Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.

Erika M. Szabo

#5. Please," her shadow begged.
Laughingstock for sure.
"I can't give you what you want," Cam said. "You know that." She had to know that.

Erin Kellison

#6. Finally, what I really want is to be happy in this moment, where the magic and miracles happen. Stay in the moment and all gifts are added as you breathe and take inspired action.

Joe Vitale

#7. It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.

Sylvester Stallone

#8. I don't want to move out of bed."
"I don't want to move out of bed either. Let's live here.

Michelle M. Pillow

#9. I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.

Judd Apatow

#10. There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

Snoop Dogg

#11. I want to do everything to you, all at once," he muttered. "I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don't know that I have any gentleness in me tonight.

Thea Harrison

#12. Hours trickle by, and I wilt. The magic isn't here for me tonight. I can't get away from the heavy feeling of being me. I want to blend in, to be someone besides myself, someone who is part of something secret and subversive and exciting.

Bethany Griffin

#13. Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.

Maria V. Snyder

#14. What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.

Candice Accola

#15. People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

Dr. Dre

#16. If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

Colin Morgan

#17. I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

John Darnielle

#18. Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us, they're the things that make us what we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!

William Shatner

#19. Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

Keith Barry

#20. There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.

Rupert Friend

#21. I can't bring myself to move. Because as soon as I do, it will be time to be polite and matter-of-fact and back to normal. And I can't bear that. I want to stay here. In the place where we can say anything to each other. In the magic spell.

Sophie Kinsella

#22. I told him that I didn't want magic, that I wanted someone who wouldn't leave me if he could. Who wouldn't feel being committed to me was such a burden.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. Stop looking at my mouth."
His eyes darkened, as she saw his pupils dilate. He mouthed back, just as silently. "What if I don't want to stop looking at your mouth?

Thea Harrison

#24. You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.

Blue GhostGhost

#25. I don't want any more magic in my life, your love is enough for me!

Avijeet Das

#26. I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

Marcia Cross

#27. I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

Gene Wilder

#28. I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.

Charles De Lint

#29. I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.

Ester Dean

#30. Babe, when we have sex, we create magic. We leave earth. We travel the fucking universe. Sex with you goes on and never ends. It transcends. I'm fucking addicted to it. Addicted to you. I didn't want to share you.

S. Ann Cole

#31. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

Tennessee Williams

#32. I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

Burton Silverman

#33. But for a little second, I just want to sit in this stupid chair and believe there is this sort of magic between two people and I can be this prized someone to this sexy, raw, primitive man who's so strong, mysterious, and playful to me, he compels me like nothing in my life ever has.

Katy Evans

#34. I want you to hear how I can tell stories. I want you to hear how I can make these records about these females and make them feel every way I can. I want you to feel my magic. I want you to respect me and my artistry.

Kirko Bangz

#35. To the children who loved Harry Potter, I want to say your enthusiasm was the real magic. I so enjoyed being on the journey with you. And to the adults who bought the Harry Potter books and devoured them, I just want to say, those books were for children.

Daniel Radcliffe

#36. I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.

J.K. Rowling

#37. The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed.
"See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.

Ilona Andrews

#38. I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

Jane Goldman

#39. DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

Terence McKenna

#40. Next to me, Saiman smiled.
We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

Ilona Andrews

#41. I don't want you to go." She reached up to touch his face and pull him down to her. "I want this, Rain. I want you.

C.L. Wilson

#42. We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: I did it myself!

Lenore Skenazy

#43. What gave it away? When she loaded me bound and gagged into the back of her truck? Or when she actually said. "I'm ready to kill you and throw your body inn the swamp?
"Hey for a while there, it looked like you were going to talk your way out of it. I didn't want to interfere.

Kelley Armstrong

#44. I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

Terry Crews

#45. I want to interrupt a game of magic the gathering by busting through a wall on a motorcycle

Megan Boyle

#46. I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

Glen Duncan

#47. I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

Terry Brooks

#48. I was sure the Egyptian title said the Divine Pooter. But that made no sense, unless Khnum had magic powers I didn't want to know about.

Rick Riordan

#49. I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic.

Janet Evanovich

#50. I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

Amy Sedaris

#51. My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.

Don King

#52. Everything is fine, everything is just fine. It's ordinary. The problem is I don't want ordinary I want ... "
"Magic?"
"Yeah, you know what the problem is, we just aren't in love, neither one of us wants to admit it.

Richard Castle

#53. I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Harry Anderson

#54. But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
Twice I have so simply declared myself,
have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,
have taken on his craft, his magic.

Anne Sexton

#55. I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#56. He didn't want to admit that his daughter was something more now. I raised my hand guiding one of Nona's lawn ornaments across the lawn. Making it dance.
"Hope," Dad warned from inside.
I dropped it on the lawn. "Such a party pooper.

Holly Hood

#57. Ronan laughed suddenly. That sound, as crooked and joyful and terrible as the dream in his hand, should have woken these cattle if nothing else did.
"I hear if you want magic done," he said, "you ask a magician.

Maggie Stiefvater

#58. How about you ask me something like, "What do you want more than anything?" and I reply with, "A hellhound in my bed"?

Amanda Carlson

#59. I don't believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.

Laini Taylor

#60. I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.

Thomm Quackenbush

#61. My mom said:'Don't put your finger in your brother's ear! If you want to know how that quarter trick is done, go ask the magician.' So I tugged on The Great Arturo's pant leg until he finally taught me how. That was my first magic trick! I was five years old.

Autumn Morning Star

#62. You know, just once, I want a beautiful woman to exploit me for something other than my magic and dangerous political connections.

Seanan McGuire

#63. I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

Allen Iverson

#64. I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

Don DeLillo

#65. Damian, if you really like her, shouldn't you want to take it slow?" "I am taking it slow because what I really want to do is wave one of your magic wands, make you disappear, and throw her across a chaise and fuck her until she can't move.

Jillian Dodd

#66. Really the only way it would work is if the pockets in the pocket-pants made me look thinner and still held tons of stuff. I guess basically I want magic. In a size sixteen. I want my pockets to be like a TARDIS,

Jenny Lawson

#67. Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Dwight Yoakam

#68. I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Tennessee Williams

#69. When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Nia Vardalos

#70. I don't want you to understand the details. To feel how it feels, you just have to be on the ground with the people. That's where photojournalists have a lot of magic.

Shaul Schwarz

#71. When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special.

Ashley Monroe

#72. You think you want me now. But you'll change. Someday you'll find it damned easy to forget about me. I'm a bastard. A servant, and not even an upper servant at that
"
"You're the other half of me." (Again The Magic)

Lisa Kleypas

#73. When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

Meredith Monk

#74. I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

David Liss

#75. I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spells. I didn't want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation.

V.C. Andrews

#76. I want to take you to a place of pure magic ... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.

Gabrielle Roth

#77. It's good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume," she qualified, "but know. To be with someone, who even when you don't think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I'm not going to look around the corner for what's next.

Nora Roberts

#78. Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference.

Chang-rae Lee

#79. I thought that all magic has its price.'
'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it.

Patricia A. McKillip

#80. My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? '
'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?'
- Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher

#81. Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.

Marco Tempest

#82. I want actors. I want to be with other people. I don't wanna be alone, because of the connection when you're in a room, in a scene with someone, and it comes to life. You feel like the moment is something magic.

Noomi Rapace

#83. I don't want realism. I want magic!

Tennessee Williams

#84. In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

David Copperfield

#85. You threw Shackle," Terric said. "At his head. With a hell of a lot of magic."
"He was trying to kill you guys. He'd trapped Zay. What did you want me to do, challenge him to a game of dominos? I was supposed to ride to the rescue, right? I rode.

Devon Monk

#86. No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

R.A. Salvatore

#87. How intensely do I want to exist?

Sera J. Beak

#88. She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

Janet Fitch

#89. I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.

David Bailey

#90. [My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

James Turrell

#91. For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

Fiona McIntosh

#92. I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.

Tim Tharp

#93. I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

Kate Atkinson

#94. I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#95. I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

Will Smith

#96. I tried to convince the kids at the bus stop to climb up with me, even a little ways, but all of them said they didn't want to get dirty. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? I couldn't believe it.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#97. I don't believe in magic, but I do believe in interpreting coincidence exactly the way you want

Elizabeth Gilbert

#98. There is no such thing as magic," she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall

Melissa DeCarlo

#99. I want to woo you with food now that I've wooed you with words, song, and the magic of my interpretive dance.

Stacey Jay

#100. The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Josh Homme