Magic Quotes

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

Magic is at the core of myths.

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.