Quotes on Magic

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.