Quotes of: Magic-wand Keyword

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Days of Magic, Nights of War

She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.

Equal Rites

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among maicians

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Fahrenheit 451

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

The God Cookie

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice.

Black Magic Sanction

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

Alan Moore

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

Ricky Jay

But that is impossible," said Peter. "Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic.

The Magician's Elephant

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

The Magic Mountain

The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.

Shadow Spell

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life. Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic

A Precarious Journey Into Magic

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Psycho

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

And where are you going?" "I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to." Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.

Wet Magic

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

The Year of Magical Thinking

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

Penn Jillette