Quotes About Magic

Le Streghe non conoscono le origini del loro culto.

Here in Corfu,' said Theodore, his eyes twinkling with pride, 'anything can happen.

Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it, so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

The owls appeared now, drifting from tree to tree as silently as flakes of soot, hooting in astonishment as the moon rose higher and higher, turning to pink, then gold, and finally riding in a nest of stars, like a silver bubble.

I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

The power of Thought, - the magic of the Mind!

The spirit hits them and they follow (My italics) Louis Armstrong Mumbo Jumbo [Mandingo m?-m?-gyo-mb?, "magician who makes the troubled spirits of ancestors go away": m?-m?, grandmother+gyo, trouble+ mb?, to leave.] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

One may even state for that true success in all Magic a thorough grounding in Yoga technique is an absolute essential.

But if any man is anxious to discover the eternal font wherefrom the flame of Godhead springs, should there be one who is desirous of awakening in himself a more noble and lofty consciousness of the spirit, and within whose heart burns the aspiration to dedicate his life to the service of mankind, let such a one turn eagerly to Magic.

Analytical psychology and magic comprise in my estimation two halves or aspects of a single technical system.

Since, therefore by this definition, man is a spark of so lofty a consciousness, a child of the cosmic gods, there is no alternative to the tenor of his life than that to his spiritual progenitors he should aspire for union. It is to effect this union that Magic owes its origin and its raison d'être.

Magic is the accumulated record of psychic and spiritual experience which we have inherited from the past, from former generations of mankind.

I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.

Santa exists in the hearts of all true believers.

Thoughts, ideas, music, desires, poetry, anger, hate. People speak of the heart, Lieutenant, but it's the brain that holds all the magic and mystery of the human species. It elevates us, separates us, defines us as individuals. And the secrets of it—well, it's doubtful we'll ever know them all.

People speak of the heart, Lieutenant, but it's the brain that holds all the magic and mystery of the human species. It elevates us, separates us, defines us as individuals. And the secrets of it—well, it's doubtful we'll ever know them all.