Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Magic - Quotes

A little magic can take you a long way. - Roald Dahl

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. - Roald Dahl

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist. - David Blaine

Children see magic because they look for it. - Christopher Moore

Effective magic is transcendent nature. - George Eliot

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill – take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. - Tom Robbins

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician – but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility. - Dean Koontz

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Wolfgang Von Goethe

Magic is not done, it's not performed. Like any performance art, it withers away to nothing if it's not presented in the grand style. Moving your feet around is not dancing, reading the lyrics is not singing, and pulling a rabbit out of a hat is not magic. - John Cassidy & Michael Stroud

Mystery is the basic appeal of magic. Once the secrets are known, the magician becomes a mere manipulator, an actor in a suspense drama which has little impact because the audience knows the ending in advance. - Milbourne Christopher

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. - Robert A. Heinlein

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself. - Rosemary Guiley

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. - Terry Pratchett

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. - Charles de Lint

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden. - Gene Wolfe

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen. - Sidney Sheldon

True Magic is the greatest of all natural sciences, because it includes a knowledge of visible and invisible nature. It is not only a science but an art, because it cannot be learned out of books and must be acquired by practical experience. - L. W. de Laurence

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. - Tom Robbins

We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. - J. K. Rowling

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