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Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir.' It just happens.

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.

LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.

Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.

Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic, all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

[Magic] Johnson is seriously remarkable, in terms of what he has accomplished in his profession and outside of his profession as well.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

Look for magic in the daily routine

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.