Quotes About Magic

She had been laced into a thing that she could only imagine was for magical purposes, meant to confine her heart and her breath in a sort of cage to hold her forever like a shut fist that would never open.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Making something from nothing is the quintessential magic of women, whether turning fiber to thread or flour to bread or engaging in the ultimate creative act: conjuring new humans from nowhere at all.

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.

The world of the sorcerer's apprentice – a world without an 'off' switch? Is that the world we inhabit?

The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many things happen. If we say or write words in a certain way, we can make people see things that aren't there and feel things they have no reason to feel—all this with mere mouth sounds or paper marks.

The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it.

How they hell does it do that?

there could well be two alien species out there, both with weapons and technology so far ahead of ours it might as well be magic." "Thank you, Sir Arthur," Ozzie muttered. Nigel grinned at his old friend; he doubted anyone else in the room got the reference.

read, and his last book was Balzac's mysterious tale of the magical shrinking skin, La Peau de chagrin.

The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their shapes, became small piles of perfect asterisks and blooms tumbled together in their discrete geometries like children's blocks.

A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.

There is no formal hierarchy in the chaos tradition of magic. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.

You can explain coincidence to me in mathematics all you like, but it won't kill the magic or the mystery.

But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaohís heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

But the magicians did the same thing by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against the magic charms with which you ensnare souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. So I will free the souls you have ensnared like birds.

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.