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Quotes About Magic

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
~ Salman Rushdie
Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.
~ Salman Rushdie
that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.
~ Salman Rushdie
Naught but love makes magic real.
~ Salman Rushdie
Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury—sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal—drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy.
~ Salman Rushdie
the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
~ Salman Rushdie
People tend to focus on the magic more than the realism. But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.
~ Salman Rushdie
Witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
~ Salman Rushdie
Metamorphosis, this is what I need to explain to her, is what supplants our need for the divine. This is what we can perform, our human magic
~ Salman Rushdie
imagined world behind our eyelids can drip its magic into the world we see when we open our eyes.
~ Salman Rushdie
Information got abolished sometime in the twentieth century, can't say just when; stands to reason, that's part of the information that got abolish, abolished. Since then we've been living in a fairy-story. Got me? Everything happens by magic. Us fairies haven't a fucking notion what's going on. So how do we know if it's right or wrong? We don't even know what it is.
~ Salman Rushdie
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.
~ Robin Sharma
Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.
~ Juliet Marillier
Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.
~ Melissa Marr
there's nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.
~ Deborah Harkness
Strength is magical, just a little bit more can mean the difference between success and failure.
~ Mike Berry
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
~ Khalil Gibran
Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.
~ Walt Disney
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
~ Criss Angel
Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
~ Sarah Caldwell
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.
~ Jack Canfield
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
~ Stephen Dorff