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Quotes About Magic

Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.
~ Kyle Hill
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.
~ Simon McBurney
I want to bring magic back to where it started, which is not about the props, and it's not about me as a magician: it's about the audience and playing with their minds and playing with their perception of magic and having fun with it.
~ Keith Barry
I ask everybody, who's the best between Magic and LeBron? Everyone says Michael's greatest. But, OK, well, we'll give him his props. But LeBron is a better athlete, and he can do more than Michael on the basketball court.
~ Charles Oakley
she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?
~ Evelyn Waugh
But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The breathless idyl of their engagement gave way, first, to the intense romance of the more passionate relationship. The breathless idyl left them, fled on to other lovers; they looked around one day it and it was gone, how, they scarcely knew. Had either of them lost the other in the days of the idyl, the love lost would have been ever to the loser that dim desire without fulfillment which stands back of all life. But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was her DARK FAIRYTALE and She was his TWISTED FANTASY. Together they made MAGIC.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he would dream one of his favorites waking dreams.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony moved about, magician-like, turning the mushroom lamp into an orange glory
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after their cold baths in the evening.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ils sont arrivés au coucher du soleil, et pendant que nous naviguions parmi des centaines d'invités en effervescence, Daisy faisait jouer dans un murmure les sortilèges de sa voix.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Those memories were still there, and tonight, he sat searching for them, just like always, grabbing at moonbeams. Every once in a while he would catch one and take a ride, and it was like magic.
~ Fannie Flagg
La música, la luz de la luna y los sueños son mis armas mágicas.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The letters from the ink in my pen are an absurd map of magic signs.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Let us flee, my love, from being ourselves… Let us never remove from our finger the magic ring that summons, when turned, the fairies of silence and the elves of darkness and the gnomes of oblivion…
~ Fernando Pessoa
I fancy cartoons; don't even get me started on 'Aladdin.'
~ Emily Atack
I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.
~ Sean Bean
When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
~ Eddie Redmayne
I'm very into fantasy films.
~ Alexandra Daddario
I think of myself as a fantasy writer.
~ Sarah J. Maas