Top 100 Magic Is Quotes
#1. To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.
David Copperfield
#3. Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.
Derren Brown
#4. Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.
Aleister Crowley
#6. For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.
Alan Moore
#7. The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
David Mitchell
#8. I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.
Mark Edward
#9. Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
Doug Henning
#10. Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
Harry Houdini
#12. Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.
Justin Vernon
#13. He is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.
Martha N. Beck
#14. Science is taking over magic's place in the world, and magic is fighting back.
Steven Walker
#15. The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining.
Mary Faulkner
#16. Magic is magic. It isn't good or bad in and of itself. It's the intent that matters. Ideally, you treat magic as a gift and you use it to influence natural forces to help and to heal. It's a positive act.
Dani Harper
#17. Magic is like silver cutlery, Ebony, you only bring it out to either impress, or stab, important guests.
Odette C. Bell
#18. Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you.
Scott Cunningham
#19. Magic is like bad grammar; hang around it long enough, and it rubs off on you.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.
Lorraine Toussaint
#21. I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
Ricky Jay
#22. If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.
Richard Bach
#23. Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic,
all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.
Scott Cunningham
#25. Harrier says the Wild Magic is as annoying as a goat. And the only other Wildmage either of us has ever met kept hitting him with a wooden spoon. Wildmages aren't like, oh - like Kellen and Idalia and Vestakia the Redeemed in The Book of the Light. They're people.' [Tiercel Rolfort]
Mercedes Lackey
#26. It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor watches the film on a huge screen, often gives a fimmaker the first real glimpse of his soon-to-be-completed work. That's where the magic is.
Robert Paul Wolff
#28. Where are we?"
"In a special place," he whispered, dragging his lips across her ear, "where magic is real.
Genevra Thorne
#29. Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.
Toba Beta
#30. Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do.
Marty Rubin
#31. My magic is not evil. It is a powerful force for good," Levet protested, his wings twitching with outrage. Really some demons. "I am like Batman. Only cuter.
Alexandra Ivy
#32. Where magic is the essence of existence and those who wield it, rarely what they seem
Kathryn Royce-Martin
#33. In any case, we do not and cannot understand what magic is, or where it comes from, any more than a carpenter understands why a tree grows. He doesn't have to. He works with what he has.
Lev Grossman
#34. Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked, "the art of magic is the art of worshipping God.
Jason Louv
#36. The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
Penn Jillette
#37. Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn't something to use lightly.
Kevis Hendrickson
#38. This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.
Erin Morgenstern
#39. Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.
Amit Kalantri
#41. They decided to allow their baby to be born. What they did not realize is that they themselves were the ones who would be 'born,' infants in a new world where magic is commonplace, Harvard professors are the slow learners, and retarded babies are the master teachers.
Martha N. Beck
#42. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
Ray Bradbury
#43. You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.
Harvey MacKay
#44. Magic is a cliche, but what do you call it when you enter a place and you can pretend you're anywhere and everywhere from the Mesozoic era to present day, provided you haven't killed every bit of childhood wonder with cynicism? It is magic. The kind that exists.
Wayne Gladstone
#45. Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
Charles De Lint
#46. Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
Penn Jillette
#47. Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to be open enough to let the magic happen, instead of trying to make it happen because magic is never made.
Jimmy Herring
#48. To the girl
who reads by flashlight
who sees dragons in the clouds
who feels most alive in worlds that never were
who knows magic is real
who dreams
This is for you
Meagan Spooner
#49. Magic doesn't mean to earn something or to get something. Magic is the will power. You can grow crops, but you can't create them. Difference is, one is the will power and the other is temptation. Magic selects the eligible but can't give them the proper direction.
Anurag Bhatt
#51. Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#53. Perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is
physics with a different twist to it.
my world just hasn't discovered the twist.
Elizabeth Kay
#54. The Golden Horn of Griffo is finely wrought," Zenodotus said, tracing his finger along the curve of Telemach's treasure. "And the magic is in its making alone. Do you understand? There is no sorcery here - none that I can detect.
Robin Sloan
#55. A blur of great magic is still just a blur.
Ken Weber
#56. Lust magic is the same as date-rape drugs in human court, Uncle Taranis.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#57. That's what magic is, Nick," she says, her voice soft. "It's just faith ...
Lauren Oliver
#58. Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
#59. The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.
Lev Grossman
#60. Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
Ricky Jay
#61. The magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball
Dolly Parton
#63. Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
Geerhardus Vos
#64. Magic is all about choice. Choosing to use it, choosing to surrender it, choosing to take it from the chasm --choosing to let it break in defense of a kingdom.
Sara Raasch
#65. You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it's the catalyst to confusion. You still can't admit this?
A.G. Howard
#67. Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
Anthony Horowitz
#68. Magic is the recognition of the fire burning behind us when all else see only their own shadow on the wall.
Margaret Weis
#69. Magic is a funny term,' she'd say. 'There is nothing supernatural about the earth. As long as you know what does what.
Suzanne Palmieri
#70. I've spent all the years since full of guilt and misery, even though I didn't remember it. I've let it run my thoughts, my plans, my whole life. But the experience doesn't own me. I own it. What I do with it is up to me, just like what Molly does with her death magic is up to her.
Faith Hunter
#71. The magic is you can change more things than you could ever dream of.
Stephen Furst
#72. It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.
Geoffrey Wood
#73. 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
#74. Magic is not always serious or solemn.
It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
Scott Cunningham
#75. Magic is magic except to the magician.
Don Bradley
#76. It's like you are oozing magic." Tari rolled her eyes.
"Yes I am an all-powerful witch," she said sarcastically.
"No. Not a witch, but something. I can't explain it. It's as if magic is your friend," Ivy continued.
S.K. Whiteside
#77. Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
#78. Magic is one thing, and reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits is another.
Terry Pratchett
#80. Black Magic is Everywhere,
Especially in your Head
Ben Gilbert
#81. Take me home, take me home, take me home, I need to go home. Please, please, whatever magic is out there for me, let it be at my command to take me home.
Kristen Ashley
#82. You're almost there already. Just imagine what you want to happen. And then concentrate on that, and only on that. The magic is everywhere. It's waiting for you to take it and make it your own.
Danielle Paige
#83. William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.
Joshilyn Jackson
#84. It's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first time, something of magic is walking on this earth.
Nikki Rowe
#85. Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
David Copperfield
#86. Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.
David Copperfield
#87. That's why black magic is so easy - it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow.
Jim Butcher
#88. Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.
Phyllis Curott
#89. I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca
#90. Perhaps all miracles are just the immediate response of objective material reality to a pure, heart-felt thought of not wanting to inconvenience anyone. Maybe the Universe is serving the highest spiritual thought. Maybe the logic of magic is love.
Eve Jones
#91. There's no such thing as dark magic, [ ... ] Magic is energy. It's the use to which it's put that is good or bad.
Brian Farrey
#92. Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation.
Harish Kumar
#93. Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.
Lev Grossman
#94. The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
Laurence Yep
#95. The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Magic is the motivation to see opportunities for a happier potential. The motivation itself creates the potential.
Shradhdha. S
#98. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action ... Magic is desire made real.
Deborah Harkness
#99. Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
Laurence Olivier
#100. All magic is 'Here's a quarter, now it's gone. You're a jerk. Now it's back. You're an idiot. Show's over.'
Jerry Seinfeld
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