Magic Quotes

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic.

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

The magic's back, folks.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

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.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

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

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

I love the magic of the studio.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

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