Top 100 No Magic Quotes
#1. I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.
Anthea Turner
#2. Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic.
Debasish Mridha
#3. How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.
Phil Plait
#4. Imagination is a glorious thing, Without imagination there would be no solace for our suffering, no wondrous creations, no stories to beguile us, and no magic...
Karen Wrighton
#5. The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
James Altucher
#6. The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world - oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.
Peter S. Beagle
#7. There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.
Sandra Bullock
#8. There will be no magic, whatsoever. Magic is either a poverty-stricken necessity or a wealthy fantasy. We are in neither of those straits, and what cannot be explained will be left unknown.
Jesse Ball
#9. There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.
Richard Berry
#10. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham
Erik Larson
#11. There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
Walt Disney
#12. But no one could change the mind of someone else. That was for them to do. And if they weren't willing, then there was no magic in existence to make them see what they didn't want to see.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. David Copperfield has no magic in him. I'm talking about Santa flying around the world in one night kind of magic. Pumpkins transformed into coaches kind of magic.
Sydney Strand
#14. You just say it. That's how you say something that's hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step by step. You say the words. There is no magic formula. There is no secret sauce. But there are words, she says emphatically, as if she's delivering an impassioned speech.
Lauren Blakely
#15. There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.
Michelle Obama
#16. If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer.
Katharine Hayhoe
#17. She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision. There's no magic for that.
Sarah Addison Allen
#18. There's no magic in places. Only people, and precious little of that; less and less the older you get.
Simon Bestwick
#19. I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.
Noel Gallagher
#20. There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#21. There's no magic for getting into the groove ... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
Phil Collins
#22. Belief is where Magic, whether light or dark, is based on. Without belief, there is no Magic.
Melanie Houtman
#23. There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.
Elizabeth Alder
#25. To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.
John F. Kennedy
#26. For no magic frightens a cold heart more than the threat of feeling that which it inflicts.
Heather Killough-Walden
#27. There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. But there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied ... Fucking Brothers Grimm.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#29. If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.
Laszlo Nemes
#31. Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.
RuPaul
#32. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#33. Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
Alan Parsons
#34. I have no magic wand to control what other people think or do. I can control how I respond, and this is all that matters.
Debasish Mridha
#35. There is no magic method of beginning ... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
Arnold Bennett
#37. Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
Don Kardong
#38. There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
Salman Rushdie
#39. No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.
Henry Rollins
#40. 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
#41. But there's one thing all the pixies do have in common. There's no magic left in any of their wings. No shimmer. No luminescence. And I have this awful feeling that my wings look no different.
Devon Ashley
#42. For me, the most magical truth of this universe is that no magic is required.
Steve Maraboli
#43. There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
Tom Petty
#44. Success is no magic; grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there!
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God.
Val McDermid
#46. Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?
Claire Morgan
#47. There is no magic in marriage. If there were, married couples would never desire to seperate. But they do.
George Bernard Shaw
#49. Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality
for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.
Terri Windling
#50. Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.
Sonia Gandhi
#51. There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
#52. My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well.
Matthew McConaughey
#53. Everyone who has ever been sick or has ever been on medication long-term knows that when you fix one thing chemically in your body, you give something else up. Look at the list of side effects. There is no magic pill for health.
Katy Evans
#54. You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
Chris Hughes
#55. If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
Don Roff
#56. Jaime, there is no secret. There is no magic. There is no way to know what the future holds. The point is that you're willing to take a chance.
Melanie Harlow
#57. When we were kids and would play hide and seek you found me before anyone else. Always. I thought you were magic."
"No magic, Nina. You were the only one I ever looked for.
Blayne Cooper
#58. I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us - comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken ... If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic
Stephenie Meyer
#59. There is no perfect ending to a relationship. No magic formula. Just a silent scream as they rip your fucking heart out.
Michael Faudet
#60. Some magic talents are destructive. Some are subtle. But no magic user should be taken lightly.
Ilona Andrews
#61. There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
Bear Grylls
#62. Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.
David Perlmutter
#63. I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
Marva Collins
#64. If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
Albert Brooks
#65. Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
Victoria Moran
#66. I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.
Don Shula
#67. Like all high-Lammers, I am a lucky accident of birth, gifted with a talent that can be expanded by something as simple as a mineral. A mineral unfortunately rare and extremely addictive. This - this dust - rules our lives. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better had there been no magic at all.
Cat Hellisen
#68. How did you get out of the suicide door?" Her disbelief was a living, pettable thing.
"Magic."
Her eyes narrowed. "There is no magic."
"Maybe not for you. But I'm from out of town.
Dia Reeves
#69. There's no magic potion to remove you from a tough situation than your own self conviction and no poison as dangerous as self doubt. In no one has done it so far, you could be the one showing the way!
Anuranjita Kumar
#70. It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula.
Gordon Strachan
#71. There's no magic ruler by which we're all judged and weighed, not in this life. If you wait for someone to tell you it's time to grow up, you'll wait forever. Some people, quite happily, do just that. They don't do anything until they're forced to by circumstance
Heidi Cullinan
#72. No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.
Rudy Giuliani
#73. Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.
James Bovard
#74. There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#75. Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
Jacques Barzun
#76. Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.
Austin Osman Spare
#77. There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.
Richard Simmons
#78. Sometimes placing our belief in something bigger than ourselves helps us get to a point where we can be enough on our own, magic or no magic.
Sara Raasch
#79. There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
Frank B. Kellogg
#80. (reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'.
Tommy Tune
#81. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying
as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
Thomas Carlyle
#82. Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.
Daniel Burnham
#83. A man should cause an impression," she said. "He should leave you with something to think about. Without that, there's no magic.
Daniel Alarcon
#84. What part of no magic did you not understand, Henri?
Maggie LaCroix
#85. Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.
Milan Kundera
#86. A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth
#87. People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it.
David Wong
#88. There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It's like saying that as of 1932, cars didn't have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them.
Bill Gates
#89. Dear sir, you simply begin. There is no magic method of beginning. If a man standing on the edge of a swimming-bath and wanting to jump into the cold water should ask you, "How do I begin to jump?" you would merely reply, "Just jump. Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
Arnold Bennett
#90. There is no magic when one no longer believes.
Hilda Lewis
#91. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.
John F. Kennedy
#92. It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
Candace Bushnell
#93. Some say there's no magic formula. I say there is. It's just that the magic is different for everyone.
Matt Fitzgerald
#94. There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.
Gene Wolfe
#95. Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action.
Lawren Leo
#96. There are no miracles because all is a miracle. There is no magic because all is magic." -Llewelyn Powys
Rose Mary Boehm
#97. You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.
John C. Maxwell
#98. The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.
Paul Claudel
#99. I don't need made-up strength. I'm strong enough on my own - me, Meira, no magic or conduit or anything.
Sara Raasch
#100. Cade grabbed my hand and pressed it against his chest. You are right here forever, and no magic tricks or sorcery can pry you from my heart.
Tess Oliver
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