Magic Quotes - Page 55

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.

Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

There is no magic in words.