Magic Quotes

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

I love the magic of the studio.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

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.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

The magic's back, folks.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

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.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

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

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.