Quotes About Magic

You know how to use magic?" I asked. "I prefer calculus.

Sometimes, being able to use magic was so cool.

Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.

Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That's what I had always been taught.

seeing a wizard cut loose can do that to

I do magic, in one form or another, and that's pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days.

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under "Wizards." Believe it or not, I'm the only one there.

Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns.

One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.

Many, many mantles are worn—or discarded—on Halloween night, wizard.

White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn't make money grow on trees.

Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.

Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. Magic

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me.

But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin.

Because nothing cuts through bullshit like a proper fireball.

The very best wizards don't need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't believe in.

It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I

Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. My

Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I