Quotes About Magic

Professor Snape

Officer Of The Ministry Of Magic (Omm)

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

The best things in life are usually found when you are not looking for them." ? Brian Tracy Quote

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

The remarkable rise of 'convenience' or processed foods—heralded by slogans 'instant,' 'ready to cook' and 'heat and serve'—has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

What have you done, brother?" Anubis snarled. "You have betrayed us." "I did what I had to do to save the world." "Chain him," Anubis commanded. He looked at his brother and his stuff face managed to twist and contort in rage. "Waerloga," he spat. The Elder nodded in agreement. "Aten the Warlock. It has a ring to it, don't you think?

Perenelle shuddered. "You know I hate leprechauns more than almost anything.

It is said that the Magic of Air or Fire or even Earth is the most powerful magic of all. But that is wrong. The Magic of Water surpasses all others, for water is both the lifegiver and the deathbringer.

There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura...or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.

It was some time ago—in the twelfth century, as you humani measure time—a man from the land of the Scots. I do not remember his name." Both Sophie and Josh instinctively knew that Hekate was lying. "What happened to him?" Sophie asked. "He died." There was a peculiar high-pitched giggle.

Magic is just science we do not comprehend yet; perhaps the angelic and the demonic are visitors from unknown lands.

But you did summon the wind?" Sophie persisted. Flamel handed Sophie back her phone. "I just phoned in a request," he said, and smiled.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

And it wasn't just astrology. "Religion, astrology and magic all purported to help men with their daily problems by teaching them how to avoid misfortune and how to account for it when it struck." With such sweeping power over people, Thomas concludes, "If magic is to be defined as the employment of ineffective techniques to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must recognize that no society will ever be free from it.

As the medieval historian Richard Kieckhefer notes, the people of medieval Europe thought of magic as rational for two reasons: "first of all, that it could actually work (that its efficacy was shown by evidence recognized within the culture as authentic) and, secondly, that its workings were governed by principles (of theology or of physics) that could be coherently articulated.