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Quotes About Magic

What's an adventure?" Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with
~ Neal Stephenson
First, I must be getting the money on my side, because after magic wanes money is the most powerful thing on earth (followed by weapons that destroy whole cities in a go, and religion—that never goes away, damn it!—and lastly, female actors who do not wear much clothing).
~ Neal Stephenson
I'll be honest with you: as a physicist, I am a hack," he admitted. "I majored in it, yes, but I was never employed in that capacity. But if you cut me I still bleed physicist blood. I'll go to my grave believing that, if magic existed, there's a scientific explanation for it.
~ Neal Stephenson
He nodded. "When the shutter opened to capture that first perfect image of the eclipse, magic ceased to function across all human societies.
~ Neal Stephenson
which is that storytellers are doing a kind of low-level magic. Their "superpower" isn't imagining counterfactuals, but rather seeing across parallel Strands and perceiving things that actually did (or might) happen in alternate versions of reality.
~ Neal Stephenson
In which witches will be witches
~ Neal Stephenson
some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.
~ Neal Stephenson
FIREFLY SONG Flittering white-fire insect! Wandering white-fire bug! Weave little stars about my bed! Weave little stars into my sleep! Come, little dancing white-fire bug! Come, little flitting white-fire beast! Light me with your white-flame magic, Your little star-torch. Ojibwa
~ Neil Philip
They had the magic pill, the solution to the inertia and frustration that has plagued the great literary protagonists I'd related to all my life—be it Leopold Bloom, Alex Portnoy, or Piglet from Winnie the Pooh. As
~ Neil Strauss
There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.
~ Nicholas Sparks
There's a lot of magic between you, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'm a Disney fan. Like, seriously, if I see Mickey Mouse, I light up.
~ LeToya Luckett
Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good when you wrote it, it's fantastic when it comes out of their mouth.
~ Kenya Barris
I'm just grateful. I'm grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I'm grateful to be in a band of brothers that I love so, so, so much. I'm grateful that this magical combination of dudes makes music that people like and moves them.
~ Coy Bowles
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
~ Steven Spielberg
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
~ George Lucas
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
~ Ben Kingsley
I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
~ Eddie Marsan
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
~ Caitriona Balfe
I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.
~ Mike D
Music happens. It cannot be made.
~ Ilaiyaraaja
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
~ Walter Bagehot
Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
~ Alex Hirsch