Top 100 Quotes About Magic
#1. He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#2. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.
C.M. Stunich
#3. For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as if by magic, but in the long, hard work of The Way.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#4. The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time.
Dean Koontz
#5. She opened her eyes and touched her lips, as though he had just kissed them. She could taste him.
Jean M. Grant
#6. I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.
Anthea Turner
#7. Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.
Thomm Quackenbush
#8. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.
Jacqueline Koyanagi
#9. She understood now why pain was the tithe for magic: It was more powerful than joy. Than anything.
Than hope?
Laini Taylor
#10. Curran looked at me. What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?
Ilona Andrews
#11. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#12. I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#13. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#15. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.
Seanan McGuire
#16. a tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide to hold elections, he would magic the masses into electing him, because he would honestly believe that he was best qualified to rule wisely. Having
Ilona Andrews
#17. ...duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.
Andy Weir
#18. It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
Jim Butcher
#19. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
Carl Sagan
#20. Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
Lloyd Alexander
#21. I just read few books, and this books made a magic in my life.
Deyth Banger
#22. The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they're willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they can. But the truth is unless you own your own magic you'll be destroyed by it; whether you lend its power to others or use what isn't yours doesn't matter.
Tiffany FitzHenry
#23. Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic.
Matt Posner
#24. All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.
Julia Cameron
#25. Every library is a palace; every book is a king; every reading is a magic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too old to believe either.
Elle Alexander
#27. Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.
Ray Bradbury
#28. What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.
Laurie Brown
#29. No," he said. "That's not magic, Lila. That's just murder.
V.E Schwab
#30. I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
David Knopfler
#31. Where does the road goes? Sometimes it is better not to ask this question and take a chance! This kind of courage can create a wonderful magic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
Anita Diamant
#33. Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.
Blaise Aguera Y Arcas
#36. Hmm," she said. "'Curiouser and curiouser,' to quote Alice.
Deborah Blake
#37. Clary?" he thought.
Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What's happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?"
"Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from the Smurfs?"
There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurfs question.
Cassandra Clare
#38. No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.
Kelly Link
#39. I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for good but sometimes we have to accept, the timing isn't right.
Nikki Rowe
#40. There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.
Laura Lam
#41. Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood.
Horton Deakins
#42. your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from.
Sanober Khan
#44. Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.
Kris Carr
#45. I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons ... I was always drawn to those types of stories.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. Although I had never believed in magic before, on that particular morning the world of magic became alive rather real.
Ramona Matta
#47. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.
Mark Twain
#48. Daniel Clemente offers family shows that are specially designed for people of all age groups. Family magic shows can be performed anywhere-camp ground or indoor.
Daniel
#49. Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!
Asse Sauga
#50. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
#51. Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
Diane Duane
#52. We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.
Laszlo Nemes
#53. I fell in love with Lo like a little girl opening her heart to magic.
Krista Ritchie
#54. There is something in the universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#55. Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight
Jason E. Hodges
#57. The often surprising results of that hunt - that's what I call Big Magic.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#58. Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.
Novalis
#59. The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols) ... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.
Colin Blakemore
#60. The Airstream drives like a couch on a magic carpet; it's
Jennifer Flower
#61. I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
Magic Johnson
#62. She was the one person he'd hoped to avoid as much as possible when he'd taken his place as Sheriff of Maxville. It wasn't that he disliked her, that was the problem. Despite his better judgment and a glutton for punishment, he still cared too damn much for the woman.
Lia Davis
#63. - You may always talk to me, honey ... - Started suddenly bright white moon. - The stars are too young to give you a wise advice, yet.
Galina Nelson
#64. What's underneath is everything. But that doesn't mean you can't enhance it. Beauty has its own kind of magic. And the appearance of something can have power too
Danielle Paige
#65. Curiouser and curiouser, he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.
Danielle Ellison
#66. Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Maya Lin
#67. I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#68. Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it.
Lev Grossman
#71. Hubert's wife, Mindy, was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with a halo of wild blond hair and eye makeup so complex it took me a while to locate her pupils. She was clearly the brains of the operation, such as she was.
Molly Harper
#72. Why is monotheistic faith better than polytheistic? I mean, either you believe - if you believe in, like, a magic person who can do magic things, why is it different - so different if it's Superman or the Fantastic Four?
Bill Maher
#73. Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.
Robert McCammon
#74. Dear rabbis, I'm so sorry, I nuked your circle dude. Here is his head as a souvenir. Yeah, that would fly.
Ilona Andrews
#75. The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
Sigmund Freud
#76. Magic is always impossible ... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.
Kate DiCamillo
#77. To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
Eliphas Levi
#78. The beginning of conscious life was the end of illusion, the illusion of non-being, and the eruption of the real. The triumph of realism over magic, of is over seems.
Ian McEwan
#79. I love shopping. There is a little bit of magic found in buying something new. It is instant gratification, a quick fix.
Rebecca Bloom
#81. To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it.
Vernon Sproxton
#83. That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#84. Truly, there is magic in fairytales.
For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time ... ' to allure and spellbind an audience.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.
Greg Brenneman
#86. If these men worshipped anything, they worshipped magic, which she supposed would be heresy back in Grey London. But then again, Christians worshipped an old man in the sky, and if Lila had to say which one seemed more real at the moment, she'd have to side with magic.
Victoria Schwab
#87. people call magic is power in action." "Action!
Miguel Ruiz
#88. I may be a loser, but hey, at least I'm a loser who can do magic, right?
Rachel Hawkins
#89. Damn and double damn the man. So much for I am woman, hear me roar. More like I am gobsmacked, watch me drool.
Jane Cousins
#90. Finally, thank you very much to Jeaniene Frost and Jill Myles. This book does have sex in it. Please don't hit me anymore."
~Ilona Andrews in the Acknowledgements section of Magic Bleeds
Ilona Andrews
#91. There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
Terry Goodkind
#92. How we spoke about magic and with whom we discussed it. Humans outnumbered us and found our power frightening, my mother explained, and fear was the strongest force on earth.
Deborah Harkness
#94. We are entwined. I drew power from the spirits and spirit workers and I returned it to them tenfold. The true source of shadowshaper magic is in that connection, community, Sierra. We are interdependent.
Daniel Jose Older
#95. I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
Andre Rieu
#96. We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
D.H. Lawrence
#97. Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.
Luis Marques
#98. I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.
Chris Pine
#99. I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Katy Perry
#100. I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
Penn Jillette
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