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Quotes About Magic

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
~ Erma Bombeck
In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.
~ Ernest Cline
Like Raistlin said, 'Tick-tock.'
~ Ernest Cline
Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar's chest and muttered a few arcane words.
~ Ernest Cline
Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply ingrained, nay, buried dreams come true. The unlimited radiates its magic even upon crime, which, not coincidentally, is the main source of entertainment in Eumeswil. I, as an anarch, not uninterested but disinterested, can understand that. Freedom has a wide range and more facets than a diamond.
~ Ernst Junger
The word is both king and conjurer.
~ Ernst Junger
Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger
~ Esther M. Friesner
the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Night is an element of love; like fog. It liberates space, lets freshness cross it. Its magic elevates the body, brings to the surface the mystery of just being alive, being. With or without stars and galaxies, the sky becomes a private territory—the imagination's own scope. These are moments when one reaches all there is between the moon and oneself. — Etel Adnan, Etel Adnan: on Love and the Cost We Are Not Willing to Pay Today (Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 2011)
~ Etel Adnan
I'm magically delicious.
~ Ethan Hawke
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
~ Eugene O'Neill
But of course he knew, all of them knew. There is only one kind of a person a wizard can marry, and that is a witch.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Happiness is almost as good as magic for altering a person's looks.
~ Eva Ibbotson
He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector
~ Eva Ibbotson
Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
~ Nicolas Roeg
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
~ Pico Iyer
There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.
~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
~ Brian May
'Sholay' can and should never be remade. It is a classic, just like 'Mughal-e-Azam.' The magic which the movie created at that time cannot be repeated.
~ Hema Malini
Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.
~ Ralph Macchio
Nothing can replace cinema halls.
~ Mahesh Manjrekar
Bobby Ball, who plays my dad in 'Not Going Out,' is very funny. He has a magical sense for comedy that nobody has been able to replicate.
~ Lee Mack
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
~ David Copperfield
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
~ Debi Thomas