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“Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”

Writing Children Stories Moving Mother Night House Dark Magic Singing Army Nervous Dramatic Apocalypse Goblin

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I really don't believe in magic.”

Believe Magic Don't Believe

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

“Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.”

Should Art Magic Streets New York Diversity West Extraordinary Block Squares Psychics Avenues Gallery Relish Amsterdam Art Galleries

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.”

People Giving Writing Has Beens Art Artist Rich Magic Complexes Casts Making Money Spells Adore Rich People Get Rich Alchemy

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.”

Art Seems Cities Magic New York Photograph Works Of Art Majesty Strands

Author:Jerry Saltz

“When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.”

War Light Heaven Stars Felt Magic Dying Models Makers Going To Heaven War Movie Star Wars Movie

Author:Adam Savage

“Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.”

Sometimes Hard Enough Light Stuff Magic Objects Needed Models Details Screens Makers Construction Inches Back When Spaceships Miniatures Specialty

Author:Adam Savage

“Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.”

Knows Book Ends Magic

Author:Dan Savage

“I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.”

Want I Can Sometimes Use Happens Walks Magic Kitchen Apartment Witchcraft Wands

Author:Amy Sedaris

“For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.”

Moments Process Magic Photography Exciting Photographer Frustrating Printing Disappointing Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

Life Inspirational Art Lying Artist Magic Art Is April Fools Day April Fools Fools Day Funny April Fools Day

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.”

People Ifs Feels Can Do Laughing Comedy Magic Humility Making People Laugh

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.”

Real Moments Happens Wish Magic Real Life Contradiction Fleeting Moments Magic Moments

Book:Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living

Source: Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living

“I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.”

Men Magic Air Sorry I'm Sorry Naps Fingertips Ordinances Bros Warlocks Sorry Men

Author:Charlie Sheen

“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.”

Knows Art Shows Magic Fortune Signatures Warlocks Polaroids

Author:Charlie Sheen

“The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.”

Firsts Problem Bits Community Secret Magic Concern Garden Seasons Prize Episodes Realism Blanket Forts Secret Garden Trampolines

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”

Matter Actors Magic No Matter What Movie

Book:Steven Spielberg: Interviews

Source: Steven Spielberg: Interviews

“Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.”

Reason Shows Magic Missions Saved Australia Reason For Everything Magic Show

Author:Rick Springfield

“Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.”

Ifs Thinking Men Use Magic Disappear Traffic Corny Magic Powers

Author:Nick Stahl

“I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.”

Littles Brain Study Magic Trials Diets Drs Signals Powder Clinicals Clinical Trials

Author:Patti Stanger

“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”

Ifs Faces Literature Magic Angel Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Fairytale

Author:Danielle Steel

“If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.”

Ifs World Two Would Be Fighting Asks Wish Magic Disease Harmony Extras Genies Muscular Dystrophy

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.”

Art Ideas Use Hands Wonder Magic Illusion Intrigued

Author:David Blaine

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

“Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.”

Men Matter Success Lying Known Successful Greater Magic Fields Benefits Adversity No Matter What Seeds Every Man Great Men Endeavor Successful Man

Author:W. Clement Stone

“The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.”

People World Way Kind Stills Real Government Magic Gold International Symbols Fund Currency Monetary Reassuring Central Banks Vaults

Author:James Surowiecki

“You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.”

Body Lasts Film Chance Magic Shapes Dancer Pregnancy Concerts Capture Pregnant Last Chance Leotards

Author:Patrick Swayze

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

Men Religion Strong Mistake Magic Society Weak Medicine Medical Glitter Scientism Weak Man Medical Science Medical Doctor

Author:Thomas Szasz

“What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.”

Kind Bigs Magic Security Lows Math Income Dust Bubbles Mortgage Rating Bundles Low Income Pixies Borrowers Slapping Goldman Sachs Pixie Dust

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”

Kind Feelings Magic All Kinds Sensations Chilly

Author:Amy Tan

“Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.”

Firsts Remember Happiness Faces Moving Joy Acting Wonder Magic Mystery Journey Laughter Smile Moving Forward Take Me Ballet Keep Moving Forward Sense Of Wonder Recitals New Journey

Author:Andrea Thompson

“It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.”

Sometimes Hard Records Magic Capture

Author:Josh Turner

“I know the difference between black magic and white magic.”

Knows Black Differences White Magic Black Magic

Author:Tina Turner

“When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'”

Looks Rooms Magic Television Boxes Corners Oh My Gosh

Author:Betty White

“My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.”

Way Memories Magic Proof Fats Cells Surgery Sabotage

Author:Carnie Wilson

“When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.”

People Littles Kids Life Is Magic Little Kid Going To Work

Author:Amy Winehouse

“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”

Thinking Death Magic Design Logic Rely Designer Precise Pedantry Exactness Pedantic

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.”

Inspirational Shows Care Spirit Song Magic Shots Dance Fingers Decades Woe Backyards Glee

Author:James Wolcott

“The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.”

Thinking Knows Way Heart Mean Stills Young Magic Band Music Is Guitar Timeless Nostalgic Surf Instrumental Music

Author:John Zorn

“Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.”

Happens Magic Consensus

Author:Christine Quinn

“Those who spell Magic with a K aren't.”

Magic Spells

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous.... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira”

Ends Would Be Magic Weapons Defeat Noble Teeth Defeated Blades Claws Saphira

Author:Christopher Paolini

“Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.”

Way Inspirational Magic Tragic Good Life

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Books may well be the only true magic.”

Inspirational Wells May Book Kids Reading Magic Library

Author:Alice Hoffman

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”

Writing Hands Moving Magic Blood Wind Skins Experts Prisoner Spiders Limbs Numb Silk Pierce

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

Book Together Universe Magic Patches Garments Fahrenheit 451 Book

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.”

Ifs Form Force Loses Our Lives Magic Constant Consideration

Author:Antonin Artaud

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

Source: The Kite Runner

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Source: The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets

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