Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
~By Ron Taffel ~
I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
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 ~
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
~By Paul Simon ~
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
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 ~
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
~By Terry Brooks ~
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
~By Max von Sydow ~
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
~By Antoine Fuqua ~
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 ~
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 Carlyle ~
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
~By Danielle Steel ~
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 ~
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
~By John Dyer ~
Great liars are also great magicians.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
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 ~
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
~By Gail Godwin ~
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 ~
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
~By David K. Shipler ~
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
~By Terri Windling ~
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 ~
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Magic, like technology, is a tool.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
~By Charlie Hunter ~
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
~By Luis Barragan ~
'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 ~
Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
~By Donal Logue ~
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~By Isabel Allende ~
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.
~By Merton Miller ~
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
~By James Broughton ~
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
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 ~
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Nature is a petrified magic city.
~By Novalis ~
We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Movies are like magic tricks.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
~By Stevie Nicks ~
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 ~
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
~By Humphrey Carpenter ~
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 ~
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Art is a sense of magic.
~By Stan Brakhage ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
~By Eliza Cook ~
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
~By Loren Eiseley ~
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?
~By Christian Bale ~
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 ~
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 ~
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
~By Tina Turner ~
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
~By Edie Brickell ~
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
~By Rupert Grint ~
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
~By Andrea Thompson ~
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
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 ~
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 ~
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
~By Warren Spahn ~
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 ~
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
~By Martha Graham ~
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
~By Patrick Swayze ~
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 ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~By Charles Morgan ~
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 ~
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
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'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.
~By Don King ~
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 ~
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 ~
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
~By William Christopher ~
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~By Nora Roberts ~
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 ~
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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