Magic Quotes - Page 61

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

I believe life is destiny, and really the capture the magic of life, and the same for the magic in the disaster.

Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket for.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right? Like you can plug a keyboard or a mouse in but that's a trick because the computer thinks the inputs are outputs. That's a programmer trick, basically magic. The key to the future is to make holes that go in too.

That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to awakening your genius. That special talent you never followed through on might be an important source of delight, the one you should commit to. That old dream might be the one thing that will bring the magic of meaning to your life.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.