Magic Systems Quotes

#1. When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

David B. Coe

#3. Our wandering life isn't over yet and before we definitely settle in Peru, a country that I admire in many ways, or in Argentina, we want to see a bit of Europe and two fascinating countries, India and China.

Hilda Gadea

#4. Bob-nodded toward the open module door. After you.

Iain M. Banks

#5. Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.
Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe

Jacob Nordby

#6. A friend should bear his friends infirmities.

William Shakespeare

#7. Photography ... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

Joan Fontcuberta

#8. I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Noel Fisher

#9. But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right?

Johnny Rich

#10. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

Jean Stapleton

#12. It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.

Terry Pratchett

#13. The happiest lot is not to have experienced the keenest delights or the greatest pleasures, but to have brought life to a close without any very great pain, bodily or mental.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. 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

#15. Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!

Josemaria Escriva

#16. We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

Jorge Luis Borges

#17. To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.

Bill Struth

#18. You don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen.

James Dashner

#19. a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence.

Derek Jarman

#20. Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.

Tim Kimmel

#21. Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

Paul Di Filippo