The Magic Quotes

#1. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.

J. Raymond

#2. Maybe magic wasn't the magic thing, when you grew up with it

Kami Garcia

#3. White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way!

Bill Maher

#4. AOE/Axsys The magic machine.

Ccru

#5. Have you ever thought; whilst looking all this time for the magic in the world, it's been inside you all along? No matter how far you travel, how wide you spread your wings and learn to fly if you have no idea what treasures hide within you you'll be searching your entire life.

Nikki Rowe

#6. students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching
them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

Seth Godin

#7. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Steve Valentine

#8. Need some help?' he asked.
'Yes!' I yelled at him 'Help us!'
'What's the magic word?'
'Now!'
'Close enough.

Michelle Rowen

#9. If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.

Al Koran

#10. In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.

Jerry Della Femina

#11. Nothing is inconceivable, and everything is possible. The proof is in the magic of music.

Pam Godwin

#12. Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life.

Debasish Mridha

#13. To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world,

Robin Williams

#14. Without new life, death is simply sad. Without death, new life is without magic--the magic of wise voices of the past, now gone, but still urging us on, urging us to write a new song.

Bill Golembeski

#15. When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

Meredith Monk

#16. Spring afternoon, beautiful flowery meadow, gentle breeze touching the heart, this is the magic of life.

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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

#18. Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.

Elizabeth Lesser

#19. Putting your house in order is the magic that creates a vibrant and happy life.

Marie Kondo

#20. If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.

Joel Greenblatt

#21. The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Nick Flynn

#22. I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

Amy Tan

#23. Therein lies the magic of our paradoxes: the situation was so uncomfortable that he pulled through with elegance.

David Foenkinos

#24. Just don't lose the magic.

Tobias Wolff

#25. People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

Thomas Leonard

#26. The magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living ...

John Geddes

#27. And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Betty Smith

#28. I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Katherine Dunn

#29. 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

#30. I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spells. I didn't want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation.

V.C. Andrews

#31. The power of your ancestors and the magic of the cosmos is in your DNA

Jan Porter

#32. The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

Fernando Perez

#33. Don't you see? You created this forest! It is your imagination that has given these trees the water to grow. It is your hopes that blazed a path through it. It is your dreams that give it the magic. All of this was created from within you!

Michael Delaware

#34. Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell ... it loses its force for me.

Angus Wilson

#35. Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#36. When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

Bear Grylls

#37. When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or deformed? Like everything else did, it came from somewhere. It's really exciting, and not knowing is part of the magic and mystery.

Kieran Bew

#38. Good morning is such a beautiful song; it begins the magic of a wonderful day.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference.

Chang-rae Lee

#40. I think that the cultural dominance of narrative forms that seduce you with character and plot perhaps at the expense of ideas, like The Magic Mountain [won't last]. Starvation sharpens the appetite.

David Mitchell

#41. People say the magic has gone out of the moon now that someone's stood on it. I don't think so. It would take more than a man's foot to steal the moon.

Jeanette Winterson

#42. Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

Melody Beattie

#43. 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.

Louise Courey Nadeau

#44. This was the magic of feasting & fucking, of savoring the blood of a kill & calling the Pack to dine.

Chloe Neill

#45. He finally understood ... the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight - a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth.

Maud Casey

#46. The magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

Dolly Parton

#47. That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'

Patina Miller

#48. I'm trying to see the magic in everyday miracles now: the fact that my heart still beats, that I can lift my feet off of the earth to walk and that there is something in me worthy of love.

Katja Millay

#49. The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.

Diane Hammond

#50. It's worth it, worth giving up the sun and the magic.

Richelle Mead

#51. The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

#52. Maybe the magic wasn't in us. It was in my eyes.

Veronica Rossi

#53. You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Sonia Braga

#54. All the magic in the world can't simplify affairs of the heart. (Sophie's dad)

Rachel Hawkins

#55. Cameras give one person a thousand eyes. They take us light years away. Pictures introduce us to a million strangers. They let us travel to other planets. It's like teleporting. It's the magic that intrigues me.

Katie Kacvinsky

#56. I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

Matt Dillon

#57. You ought to marry her, then. A man could do worse. How many men can say their wife is their best friend? Besides me, of course. I cannot too highly praise the magic of sharing every day of your life with the one person most calculated to give you pleasure.

Cheryl Bolen

#58. You don't have to take any drugs to experience the Juggalo world. That's where the magic comes in. Because it's fresh and magical to the people who enjoy it and the people who love it all by itself without any substances.

Joseph Bruce

#59. I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.

V.C. Andrews

#60. 'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

Buzz Aldrin

#61. Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.

Seth

#62. It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon.
Opal tapped this into her notepad.
Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?

Eoin Colfer

#63. Tonight I had wrought magic powerful enough to have drawn the attention of a goddess. In that moment, though, I was certain of one thing: Of all the magic I possessed, none of it could begin to compare to the magic he and I created together.

Jenna Maclaine

#64. How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

Robert Aris Willmott

#65. Let us dance with passion. Our hearts will be dancing with joy and the magic of the music.

Debasish Mridha

#66. Become a parent. Lose your autonomy, but gain the wondrous superpower of The Magic Kiss that instantly dries tears and makes the pain of boo-boos disappear.

PatriciaV. Davis

#67. 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

#68. Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

Michael Korda

#69. The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

Michael Scott

#70. Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)

Charles Dickens

#71. I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.

John Francis Daley

#72. Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy on a leash in the park. Follow the magic and magic starts to follow you.

Tama J. Kieves

#73. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

#74. As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dream are true - all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.

Jean Rhys

#75. I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

William S. Burroughs

#76. There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.

Anne Ursu

#77. To the hopefuls who believe in the magic of ridiculous, silly, and playful love.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#78. 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.

Megan McCafferty

#79. She caught the Magic 8 Ball,

Rick Riordan

#80. Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.'
They will remain protected,' Asha insists.
No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

Libba Bray

#81. The magic of Christmas is not in the presents, but in His presence.

Unknown

#82. The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

Herbert Gold

#83. Aye, it's the heart of the craft, the love and sweat that you put into it. If you think about the old tales, the magic comes from inside the person who creates it. - Conn

N.W. Moors

#84. Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone.

Fennel Hudson

#85. That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Mick Fleetwood

#86. The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Uzo Aduba

#87. You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you could read, let you taste the magic of stories, took you to the library, and allowed you to stay up later at night to read in bed.

Jim Trelease

#88. The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

Michael Jackson

#89. Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Anne Rice

#90. The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.

Nikki Sixx

#91. I've spent more than two decades speaking to women through magazines. What's so exciting about Yahoo is that I can inspire and connect with hundreds of millions more women, and bring them the magic of the fashion world in ways they haven't yet experienced.

Joe Zee

#92. The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.

Anthony Albanese

#93. The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

David Whyte

#94. Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

Thomas Campbell

#95. The Magic of Reality, aimed

Tony Little

#96. The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

George Henry Lewes

#97. The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center ... in the political sphere ... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

C. Wright Mills

#98. Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.

J.G. Ballard

#99. The magic is you can change more things than you could ever dream of.

Stephen Furst

#100. There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.

Seth Godin