Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
~By Mason Cooley ~
There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
~By Jose Eduardo Dos Santos ~
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
~By Keith Haring ~
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
~By Brian Eno ~
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 ~
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
~By Humphrey Carpenter ~
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 close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
~By Roy Orbison ~
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
~By Wolfgang Hildesheimer ~
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
~By Zane Grey ~
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
~By Antoine Fuqua ~
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~By W. H. Murray ~
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.
~By Lloyd Kaufman ~
I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
~By Bob Verdi ~
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 ~
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
~By Thomas Beecham ~
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.
~By Peter Criss ~
Music is the strongest form of magic.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
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 ~
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
~By Lance Burton ~
Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
~By Andy Dick ~
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
~By Philip Guston ~
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
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 ~
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
~By Max von Sydow ~
Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.
~By Nick Stahl ~
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
~By Louis Mumford ~
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 ~
'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
~By Randy West ~
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.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
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 ~
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
~By David Copperfield ~
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 ~
Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!
~By Isabel Yosito ~
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 ~
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
~By Debi Thomas ~
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
~By Martin Puryear ~
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.
~By Robert Barnes ~
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
~By Rutger Hauer ~
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
~By Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ~
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
~By Scott Dixon ~
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
~By Mark Rydell ~
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
~By James Earl Jones ~
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
~By Geddy Lee ~
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
~By Lou Reed ~
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 ~
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
~By Angela Carter ~
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 ~
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
~By Thomas Mann ~
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~By Bell Hooks ~
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
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 ~
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
~By Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ~
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
~By Edward Steichen ~
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
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 ~
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
~By Hayley Mills ~
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 ~
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
~By William Bernbach ~
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
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 ~
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
~By Tanith Lee ~
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
~By Allan Bloom ~
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
~By Alan Parsons ~
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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 know the difference between black magic and white magic.
~By Tina Turner ~
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
~By Luis Barragan ~
I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
~By Kathy Acker ~
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
~By Kylie Bax ~
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.
~By Merton Miller ~
Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.
~By Jamie Muir ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
~By James Cameron ~
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
~By Loren Eiseley ~
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
~By Danielle Steel ~
The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
~By Camilla Belle ~
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 ~
There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.
~By Helen Reddy ~
I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.
~By Rod Taylor ~
When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
~By Nia Vardalos ~
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
~By Terry Southern ~
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