M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.”
“Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.”
“Magic realism journeys to help you find your true self and release your creative expression, sensuality, and sexuality, by opening your sacral chakra. If blocked, you may experience an inability to receive pleasure. Find out how Jeffrey Dharma unlocked this special power in DHARMA SUTRA. Jeffrey Dharma’s search for love and enlightenment takes him on a path where he meets beings, he thought were only myth and legend. They all help him find the power of love.”
Source: DHARMA SUTRA
“Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.”
“Magic screen upon the wall, who's the most sentient of them all?”
“Magic shop is a psychodramatic technique that exchanges fear for a positive attitude.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.”
“magic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, using a variety of techniques that center on layered spelling, mumbled incantations, and a burst of concentrated thought channeled through the index fingers. The technical name for this energy is "variable electro-gravitational mutable subatomic force," which doesn't mean anything at all--confused scientists just gave it an important-sounding name so as not to lose face. The usual term is "wizidrical energy," or simply "the crackle.”
Source: The Song of the Quarkbeast
“Magic takes the path of least resistance.”
Source: Bast and Sekhmet: Eyes of Ra
“Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.”
“Magic things are fond of deceptions.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.”
“Magic tumbled from her pretty lips and when she spoke the language of the universe– the stars sighed in unison.”
“Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.”
“Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."”
“Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.”
Source: Night Film
“Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason.”
Source: Black Bead
“Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason. By that thinking, surely she was not Bad Luck, but Good, undefined.”
Source: Black Bead
“Magic was never meant to be an answer.
It was meant to be the thing that made you desperate enough to ask.”
“Magic was precarious by nature, and potatoes were safe by comparison.”
Source: Baba Connridh: A Frewyn Fable
“Magic was useless by itself. Making impossibilities possibilities was harder than it looked.”
Source: A Boy Called Christmas
“Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.”
Source: Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment
“Magic?" What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?
"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter pointed into the inky blackness of the basement. "The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race, listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.”
“Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost. And love is the greatest magic of all.”
Source: Falling Kingdoms
“Magic will happen, Just distance yourself from negativity.”
“Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope...is hope. You don't need tokens for it - it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.”
“Magic Words"
"Silly words cause trills
because they're ludicrous and funny.
Happy words paint endless smiles
and swallow troubles whole.
Thoughtful words are thus
because they make the day feel sunny.
But hurtful words are such
that pierce the heart and weigh the soul.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.”
Source: The Emperor's Soul
“Magic would seem fun from afar, but there were so many horrors crawling around each of its countless corners.”
Source: Eyes of the Watcher
“Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.”
“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
“Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.”
Source: Moonlight & Vines
“Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.”
Source: Natural Magic
“Magic, like technology, is a tool.”
“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”
Source: The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories
“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 them.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.”
“Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.”
Source: Psycho: A Novel
“Magic. It can get a guy killed.”
Source: Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen
“Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.”
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“Magic: The Gathering, Gossamer Phantom. I asked him, 'Do you believe it's real?' He almost started crying and said, 'Yes, I do think it's real' and I said, 'Then that's all that matters.'”
“Magical and fictitious are two different things. Fictitious means trickery, magical means uplifting.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Magical dreams of yesterday convey smiles for all of our tomorrows.”
Source: Dancing With Sugarplums
“Magical excitement underpins childhood Christmases, post-Christmas debt overtakes adult ones.”
“Magical Monday is an amalgamation of passion, perseverance and performance.”
“Magical morning lights, dreamy sky,
Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes”
“Magical music never leaves the memory.”
“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.”