I put the ick in magic.

I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took…

— Jim Butcher

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they…

— Dai Vernon

“Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“His hand came out and captured her by the chin. She froze, finding it hard to breathe as he gently raised her face to…

— Lia Davis

If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Great liars are also great magicians.

— Adolf Hitler

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

— Charles Dickens

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Or maybe your magic isn't that destructive after all. The rain of Doritos, the bed thing,this...Maybe it's just that you create too big, you…

— Rachel Hawkins

“(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.”

— Daniel McHugh

“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern…

— Paula Deen

When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions…

— Kelli O'Hara