Magic Quotes - Page 5

• One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Men, Engineering, Null

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• The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Doe, Absence, Tricks

  Bernard Cornwell (1999). “Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

  Novalis

  Life, Stories, World

  Thoughts on Religion, Pt. 1, "Hymns and Thoughts on Religion" edited and translated by W. Hastie, 1888.

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• Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Hurt, Loving You

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• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

  Nora Roberts

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.411, Penguin

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• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dream, Determination, Work

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• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer" edited by Barry J. Farber, (p. 38), 2003.

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• There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Real, Enthusiasm For Life

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• Magic lives in curves, not angles.

  Mason Cooley

  Curves, Illusion, Angle

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• Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men's Souls to Greatness...

  Bill McCartney

  Dream, Greatness, Men

  "A Great Design Would Help Park51 Transcend Cultural Borders" by Paul Gunther, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

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• The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

  Ben Okri

  Attention, Common, Politician

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• I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

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• The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.

  Hake Talbot

  Powerful, Drama, Differences

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• The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

  Terry Pratchett

  Senior, Long, Employment

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Idols

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Circus Magazine, April 1975.

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• I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

  Amy Tan

  Hands, Fiction, Illusion

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.114, Penguin

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• Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2016

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• A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

  Terry Pratchett

  White, Three, Balls

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, News, Too Much

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

  Peter Straub

  Littles, Pieces, Knows

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.53, Penguin

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• It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Thinking, Looks, Sometimes

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• I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

  Patrick Troughton

  Thinking, Acting, Spoil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Summer, Heart, Light

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• Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

  Scott Cunningham

  Energy, Natural, Produce

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.28, Llewellyn Worldwide

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