Best 3503 quotes in «magic quotes» category

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.

Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.

A good general chooses his battlefield.

A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of your mind. So what's the magical way of opening or closing that door? Well, to will your body to stand up and close or open that door, that's magic. With the iPhone, it's like you put your intent into it, and it helps you exercise that intent in the world.

A little magic can take you a long way.

All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.

A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it . . . but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.

Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

A magic effect is never completely finished.

A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic

A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!

And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.

And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our time—whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.

And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.

And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

Angie [Harmon] is a beautiful and stunning woman, and we both have really good qualities that complement each other. We both look very different and we have different energies, but it really works. We're lucky. When we do scenes together, I do feel like there's a certain magic that you can't always say happens.

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.