Explore Quotes on Magic

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.

I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.

I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.