Quotes About Magic

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

A painting is more than the sum of the parts," he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.

No," Ray says. "He's getting paid in magic beans. Of course he's getting real money!

Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.

What if the cloak wasn't magic at all, like the feather in that story Granny used to tell me about the elephant with the big ears?

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

On that day, the library was transformed from a confusing and intimidating collection of books into a thousand different portals through time and space to fantastic worlds for me to explore.*

It might seem odd to emphasize this point, since we noted in the previous chapter that aggregating the judgments of multiple individuals reduces noise. But because of group dynamics, groups can add noise, too. There are "wise crowds," whose mean judgment is close to the correct answer, but there are also crowds that follow tyrants, that fuel market bubbles, that believe in magic, or that are under the sway of a shared illusion.

Expert intuition strikes us as magical, but it is not. Indeed, each of us performs feats of intuitive expertise many times each day.

But for now they're all reading together, under the influence of that magic that turns a class into a single reading being, while keeping its thirty personalities distinct.

He was always on the lookout for the secret core of primitive ritual and magical belief hidden within the seemingly "rational" processes of modernity.

Sin un temperamento científico el ciudadano es vulnerable a la tentación de lo mágico, a la seducción de la pasión y a la tiranía del dogmatismo. Demasiada gente muere por fe y mata por dogma.

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

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

you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future

the golden hour--that hour of sunshine where the world looks the way it looks in your dreams.

Her enchanted hair was the first gold, and still she sits, young while the earth is old.

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

The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the necessary narrative retardation, at his beck and call.

Ice women diary: A witches tin key.

Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

Our presidential race is beginning to sound more and more like Harry Potter's duel with the Ministry of Magic.