Quotes About Magic

The nature of anything truly enchanting has to be as light as a whiff of air.

Giornata splendida, sole, un refolo di vento che addolcisce il mondo...insomma, tempo da elfi.

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.

This one thing indeed is a principal foundation of the experiments in natural magic (of which I shall speak presently) wherein a small mass of matter overcomes and regulates a far larger mass — I mean the contriving that of two motions one shall by its superior velocity get the start and take effect before the other has time to act.

Lastly, matters of superstition and magic (in the common acceptation of the word) must not be entirely omitted. For although such things lie buried deep beneath a mass of falsehood and fable, yet they should be looked into a little. For it may be that in some of them some natural operation lies at the bottom, as in fascination, strengthening of the imagination, sympathy of things at a distance, transmission of impressions from spirit to spirit no less than from body to body, and the like.

her mind was full not of facts, but of glamour;

It didn't occur to him to make allowances for the long English twilight. That twilight gave to the landscape a curious effect of suspended life. It cast upon everything (or was that, perhaps, the beer?) an eerie, magical bloom. Every mile that he went - and now he was hurrying - he felt surer and surer that he was on the verge of some shattering experience.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

It seems to be a requirement of great and powerful magicians that they live on public assistance.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus…. Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

El alcalde tiene dos obligaciones que están por encima de cualquier otra: mantener la ciudad segura y gobernar de una manera claramente liberal y progresista. Perdido eso, la magia desaparecería.»

Fairy tales can come true It can happen to you If you're young at heart

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from a place beyond intention.

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention. It just falls from them like windfall fruit.

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention.

Witches don't look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

But witchy magic doesn't listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn't really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

Word magic. If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because the methods of scrutiny that have been applied so far do not suffice for their grasping, understanding and utilization, although the laws of magic are analogous to all official sciences of the world.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

The fundamental premises of the law are mischief for mischief, magic for magic, violence for violence.

He'll just snap his fingers and turn us to dust.

Why didn't Grandpa change you back?" Kendra asked. Grandma's eyebrows shot up. "Probably because I kept laying eggs for his breakfast.