Magical Quotes

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.

When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.