There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life. ~By Genie Francis ~
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing. ~By Louis Mumford ~
When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing. ~By Greg Rusedski ~
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. ~By Daniel Burnham ~
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind. ~By Boyd Rice ~
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. ~By Antoine Fuqua ~
When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly. ~By John O'Toole ~
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ~By William S. Burroughs ~
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. ~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ~By Ben Okri ~
In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign. ~By Jacky Ickx ~
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~By Dale Carnegie ~
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. ~By W. Clement Stone ~
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam. ~By Eliza Cook ~
Nature is a petrified magic city. ~By Novalis ~
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. ~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again. ~By Penn Jillette ~
I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. ~By Bob Balaban ~
I really don't believe in magic. ~By J. K. Rowling ~
Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore. ~By Kristen Bell ~
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. ~By Kathy Acker ~
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. ~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years. ~By Brian Eno ~
Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience. ~By Lance Burton ~
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery. ~By Conrad Hall ~
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. ~By Charles Eames ~
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ~By Philip Guston ~
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone. ~By Alicia Witt ~
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. ~By Raymond E. Feist ~
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors. ~By James Cameron ~
Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will? ~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone. ~By Merrill Markoe ~
Magic, like technology, is a tool. ~By Mercedes Lackey ~
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. ~By Bryan Magee ~
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. ~By Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ~
Art is a sense of magic. ~By Stan Brakhage ~
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. ~By Penn Jillette ~
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. ~By Jay Leno ~
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work. ~By Greg Rusedski ~
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. ~By Charles Manson ~
He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor. ~By Deborah Cox ~
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control. ~By Bill Dixon ~
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ~By John Mortimer ~
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in. ~By Benny Green ~
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. ~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow! ~By Isabel Yosito ~
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ~By Caroline Gordon ~
What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery. ~By Eric Cantor ~
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen. ~By Richard E. Grant ~
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ~By Javan ~
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. ~By Lynn Abbey ~
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom. ~By John Sexton ~
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary. ~By Richard Berry ~
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are. ~By Edgar Bergen ~
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ~By Robert MacNeil ~
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. ~By Ann Patchett ~
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. ~By Alice Hoffman ~
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. ~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic. ~By Illeana Douglas ~
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating. ~By Merton Miller ~
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled. ~By Stephen Dorff ~
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new. ~By Emanuel Celler ~
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. ~By David Knopfler ~
The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist. ~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years. ~By Phil Lesh ~
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ~By Roberto Benigni ~
I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it? ~By Humphrey Carpenter ~
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. ~By Sara Paretsky ~
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures. ~By Ron Taffel ~
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. ~By Ben Okri ~
I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them. ~By Mark Knopfler ~
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ~By W. H. Murray ~
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. ~By Steven Spielberg ~
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. ~By Debi Thomas ~
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ~By Thomas Dekker ~
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. ~By Frank Auerbach ~
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? ~By Thomas Mann ~
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance. ~By Louis Leakey ~
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can. ~By Parker Stevenson ~
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ~By James G. Frazer ~
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ~By Chuck Close ~
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go. ~By Cornelia Funke ~
Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys. ~By Jason Kidd ~
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. ~By Roberto Benigni ~
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ~By Duane Michals ~
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. ~By Plato ~
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian. ~By Terry Southern ~
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~By John Quincy Adams ~
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves. ~By James Marsters ~
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ~By Charles Dickens ~
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. ~By James Broughton ~
I love the magic of the studio. ~By Graham Coxon ~
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~By J. B. Priestley ~
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. ~By Temple Grandin ~
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~By Thomas Szasz ~
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