Magic Quotes - Page 21

Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.

The number one quality is charisma. You have to be able to connect with the audience. That is that magic "it" factor that designates a star from someone who is just never going to be a star.

The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

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.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when the chef is not in the house? I feel cheated. I don't mind paying big money for food but if I go to Paul Bocuse's restaurant I want Paul in the house.

Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.