Quotes About Magic

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

I had this imaginary world where fairies were my friends. If you told six-year-old Juno that she'd one day play a Disney fairy, she'd totally freak out.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

I think Disney plays a really important part in fashion.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

As a magician or anyone fascinated by magic, the Houdini story is a really impressive one.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

When it's the same team that's created magic at the box office in the past, you know you are in safe hands.

I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

I sang so many beautiful compositions, but 'Rockstar' was indeed magic.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Everybody always wants to be a mermaid

Sometimes the purpose of secrecy is to keep a magic power from the hands of unbelievers, or from enemies who may use it for sorcery. But in many cases it is intended to make those excluded think that initiates have superior powers.

But however fast the world was spinning, time was standing still for Celine and Oliver, held in a magic moment they would never forget.

Those of us who believe in princesses are often laughed at. But I believe the world needs princesses and dukes and queens and kings. We need people who glitter and shine and make a room silent with their entrance. We need them the same way we need ice cream and soccer and music and stories. Oh, how we need stories.