Magic Quotes
2715 Magic quotes by 1632 unique authors
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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…
— James G. Frazer
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Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
— Holbrook Jackson
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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…
— Alice Hoffman
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into…
— John Ruskin
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The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a…
— Jack Handey
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Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices. Essentially, the "magic…
— Bruce Miller
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You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the…
— Laurence Sterne
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I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the…
— William S. Burroughs
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I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand.
— Unknown Author
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My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
— Young-Ha Kim
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Creativity is really the structuring of magic.
— Unknown Author
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Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.
— Jonah Berger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.
— Mike Dirnt
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In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.
— Arjuna Ardagh
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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