Magic Quotes

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I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would… — Criss Angel
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy… — Steve Martin
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who… — Philip Guston
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided… — William Butler Yeats
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic. — Mike Dirnt
In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule. — Arjuna Ardagh
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. — Barbara Kingsolver
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the… — Vincent Canby
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with… — Roland Barthes
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are… — Paul Claudel
And so there is magic. — Neil Gaiman
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness… — Michael Pollan
One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch… — John Perry Barlow
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. — John Dryden
I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic… — George B. McClellan
True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because… — Franz Bardon
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name… — Ambrose Bierce
There is something in omens. — Unknown Author

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