Quotes About Magic

I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

Alchametic magic is 'How do I create something out of nothing purely through manifesting my will through power and light, which is value.' That's white magic. That's alchametic magic.

There is magic in Scotland. It's country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.

I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

I took a course on 'Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology' at Mount Holyoke, and it was a whole new awakening for me, a way of thinking about the world primarily in terms of concepts and words rather than mathematical formulas.

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

My fantasy life was very full. Certainly when I was a kid, I probably wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be a princess, or something magical, and get to dress up magically, and have the kind of life that I hadn't been born into, with magic powers or whatever, and live this wonderful idealised life.

I remember meeting the princesses at Disney World and getting their autographs.

I grew up when Disney was doing movies like Cinderella, and all the girls were princesses.

When you're a little girl, you kind of gravitate towards all of the princesses and things.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.

I like the probability of the impossible.

When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

I probably know everything there is to know about Disney.

I love Disney movies.

I have always really liked creating family entertainment, and Disney does that really well.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

I love working for Disney! They are my family.

I love Disney.