Quotes About Close Up Magic

#1. At the end of the day, even the magic of machine translation is like Facebook, a way of taking free contributions from people and regurgitating them as bait for advertisers or others who hope to take advantage of being close to a top server. - Author: Jaron Lanier

#2. If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#3. Close analysis of 'miracles' have never led to any proof for a supernatural explanation, and, in fact, many have proven to be cheap magic tricks, hallucinations or primitive misunderstandings of natural phenomena. - Author: Armin Navabi

#4. His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending. - Author: Juliet Marillier

#5. It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before. - Author: Chuck Close

#6. Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. ... All those things. - Author: R.M. Engelhardt

#7. 'You do know what magic is, don't you?'
Magic's when you close your eyes, make a wish, and it comes true.'
'No, that's coincidence.'
Magic's when a princess kisses a frog and it turns into a prince.'
'No, that's evolution.'
Isabelle scratched her neck. 'Well, then, what is magic? - Author: Suzanne Selfors

#8. One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally. - Author: Penn Jillette

#9. A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick
a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#10. Charlotte's dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises. - Author: Jennifer Lott

#11. There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way. - Author: Robert M. Pirsig

#12. Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. - Author: Chuck Close

#13. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open. - Author: Amit Kalantri

#14. Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. - Author: Bill Gates

#15. If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up. - Author: Penn Jillette

#16. I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark. - Author: Laure Eve

#17. The Deeper Magic always seemed to come up when Ember didn't feel like doing something, or needed to close a plot hole. - Author: Lev Grossman

#18. Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education. - Author: Tim Scott

#19. 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. - Author: Billy Corgan

#20. She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said. - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#21. When you are close to divine and get guidance from the divine, life becomes easy. Intuition is where peace, magic and glory are. - Author: Hina Hashmi

#22. We're close to where the nature preserve starts now, Charlotte says to Henry. The magic begins here. Can you feel it? She suspects he probably can't. She walks here daily, looking for something, peace mostly. The forest gives her more than she comes looking for, every time. - Author: J.J. Brown

#23. Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off. - Author: Carl Ballantine

#24. 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. - Author: Nia Vardalos

#25. Need some help?' he asked.
'Yes!' I yelled at him 'Help us!'
'What's the magic word?'
'Now!'
'Close enough. - Author: Michelle Rowen

#26. If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life. - Author: Amit Kalantri

#27. You hold one feather tightly in your hand, close your eyes and concentrate. The location of the other feather will appear in your mind and the magic will take you there. - Author: Louise Courey Nadeau

#28. I have never been this close to a man before. Something stirs deep, pulsing through my body, and its quite like the tug of magic, buts its not the magic; this is something entirely different, just between Finn and me and this moment. - Author: Jessica Spotswood

#29. I hate you, wardrobe. But here is what's going to happen. I will close the doors, say a magic word, open the doors, and you will present me with a suitable evening gown.
Work, dammit. - Author: A.W. Exley

#30. Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. ( ... ) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a sort of fairy-tale quality to real life. They remind the teller and the listener of the magic that can be found in the mundane if you pay close attention. - Author: Megan McCafferty

#31. Too much excitement, Your Majesty?" I asked.
"He was standing too close."
"He was asking about Andrea."
"Too close. I didn't like it." Curran wrapped his arm around my shoulders and started walking,
steering me away from the group. His Possessive Majesty in all of his glory. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#32. He made a sound close to a growl before speaking. "Why do you resist my assistance?"
She stopped walking and faced him. "Because I don't like you. - Author: Lia Davis

#33. If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience. - Author: Guillermo Del Toro

#34. Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again. - Author: Mary-Jean Harris

#35. 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. - Author: Dori Ann Dupre

#36. Dreams may seem far, but the steps we take are close. Focus on these steps and watch your dreams magically appear. - Author: Charles F. Glassman

#37. It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders."
He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers.
"I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you. - Author: Shannon Stacey

#38. After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it's theme, mood and highlights -until the magic of the painting flashes before me. - Author: Srinidhi.R

#39. I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. - Author: Roy Orbison

#40. When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get. - Author: Nhat Hanh

#41. Kahana was the first to close the distance between them, joining their two universes into one. Stars exploded and meteors crashed into planets as they shared a kiss that felt like more than just magic. It was love. - Author: Aishabella Sheikh

#42. I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. - Author: Newt Gingrich