M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.”
Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel
“Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so,' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner,' he wailed.”
“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.”
Source: Deathless
“Magic doesn’t require beauty,’ she said. 'Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.”
Source: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
“Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.”
“Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.”
“Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.”
“Magic existed in his eyes, his energy as he lived his daily life. I could fall into his soul and lay my worries to rest, but if by chance this happened; it wouldn't last the test.
because there's much to learn, before we can meet, I want to collide with his heart; allow our souls to fleet.
His arms will hold my fears, but he won't carry the load; as it is my lesson to love myself, and find my own sense of hope.
When we cross our paths, our knowledge will last the test; as patience fills the air and our burdens are put to rest,
I will honour my truth, and seek what I desire; ever lasting love and passion set on fire.”
“Magic exists if you allow it. If you open yourself up to it.”
“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars?”
“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
Source: Charmed: The Donovan Legacy
“Magic. For the first time, she heard the word and felt a twist in her stomach, a little thrill. Having that kind of power, that kind of influence... it was a wicked thing.”
Source: A Wicked Thing
“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”
Source: Red Glove
“Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.”
Source: Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
“Magic happens when a stubborn soul refuses to give up on his dreams!”
“Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.”
“Magic has a price... and so does paradise." - Pearl Dale, Mermaid Island #1”
Source: Memory Remains
“Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.”
“Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.”
Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.”
“Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.”
“Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.”
“Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.”
Source: Dreaming the Dark
“Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.”
Source: Paracelsus: Selected Writings
“Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.”
“Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.”
“Magic in the form of Qur'anic numerology (in relation to letters), amulets, scrolls carried on the body, and the repetition of certain Names of Allah a specific number of times, is still widely practiced by some Sheikhs and women Sufi healers throughout Eastern Europe, the Middle and Near East.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.”
“Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly.”
“Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.”
Source: Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files
“Magic is a lie, but magician need not be a liar.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.”
Source: Lady of Avalon
“Magic is a naughty beast.”
Source: That Wicked Apple: Snow White & Even More Zombies
“Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.”
“Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.”
“Magic is a science.
Miracle is the work.
Mind is a laboratory.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of Achievable Reality is the limitations which we believe bind us into a narrow range of actions and successes - what we believe to be possible for us at any one time. In this context, the purpose of magic is to simultaneously explore those boundaries and attempt to push them back - to widen the 'sphere' of possible action.”
“Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.”
“Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have to be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own habitual thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts.”
“Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical reality is not about creating an enclave of magic beyond your everyday life, but of allowing magic in- allowing for the intrusion of the weird, the irrational, the things you can't explain, yet are undeniably real.”
“Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.”
“Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.”
“Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.”
“Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.”
“Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.”
Source: The Ring and the Crown
“Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.”
Source: Dreaming the Dark
“Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.”
“Magic is at the core of myths.”
“Magic is based on the tapestry of interconnectivity between you and the natural world.”
Source: 365 Tarot Spells: Creating the Magic in Each Day