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Quotes About Magic

I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.
~ Don King
If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.
~ Doug Henning
For the most part, magic secrets are available on a level that's overwhelming and frightening, and they are very accessible if you do the tiniest bit of digging. But, that said, there's a certain group of individuals, in which I am included, who are very tight about secrets and don't share them with anyone.
~ Ricky Jay
Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.
~ Sadhguru
Known for its classic animated movies like The Lion King and world-famous entertainment complexes, Disney offers some of the best ways to bring the whole family together.
~ Sallie Stone
I thought therapy was a sort of magic, that you just kept talking and the very act of talking unlocked some forgotten key.
~ Sally Brampton
I'll do the black magic. Then, I'll hand you the wand.
~ Sally Hogshead
Sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch—these senses are practically built for black magic. If you speak the language of relationship, use them whenever you can. Stimulating the five senses heightens the brand experience, making it more intensely fascinating.
~ Sally Hogshead
When you speak the language of creativity, you can transform a dull commodity into something magical. Rather than charging just for the generic value of the product, you can charge for the experience.
~ Sally Hogshead
You're a magician or some kind of weird, witchy woman. I don't know how you do it. You never lose," he said one night, exasperated after I pummeled him game after game. "You're like Wonder Woman or some backgammon superhero. Hey, I've got it—you're Backgammon Girl.
~ Samantha Hart
No. I'm not from outer space or the future. And this is not magic, just science, pure engineering. Magic, religion, the occult --all of it-- they are all excuses to not believe that wonders are possible here on Earth. I don't want to be magic. I want people to understand that things they never even dreamed of are possible. I want to be believed, Louisa.
~ Samantha Hunt
For fear does things so like a witch, 'Tis hard t' unriddle which is which
~ Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!
~ Samuel Lover
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.
~ Samuel R. Delany
The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectators experience should be identical to, or have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Quotes are the enchanted way of freezing our thoughts in time forever.
~ Sanita Belgrave
Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down. Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)
~ Sapphire Phelan
It works. But the tricky thing is, it never works exactly how you expect. People think they're smart enough to summon up some entity or make someone fall in love with them and have it all turn out for the best. But they aren't smart enough. Whatever it is that usually decides our fates--Gods, luck, random chance--it's smarter than us. It's always smarter. Magic works, but it's an exercise in irony, sometimes a dangerous one. Be careful.
~ Sara Gran
What if the [emperor's new] clothes really *were* invisible? What if they were spun from the most magical thread in the entire universe? And what if everyone was too stupid to see? Including the stupid little kid who became the hero of the story?
~ Sara Nickerson
When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
~ Sara Paxton
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
~ Sara Shepard
Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret – something ancient and precious.
~ Sara Sheridan
The best metaphors are a bit magical. They conjure connections that weren't there in our minds before
~ Sarah Arthur
Part of the magic of the imagination is that it can conjure something out of nothing except the simple medium of words until the hearer really feels as though she's experiencing a multisensory event.
~ Sarah Arthur