All Quotes

Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.
‐‐ Michael Carbonaro

Magic is my paint.
‐‐ David Copperfield

Magic is really performing special effects live.
‐‐ Michael Carbonaro

Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
‐‐ Doug Henning

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
‐‐ N. K. Jemisin

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
‐‐ Criss Angel

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
‐‐ Judith Tarr

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
‐‐ Jay Leno

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.
‐‐ Russell Westbrook

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

Magic, like technology, is a tool.
‐‐ Mercedes Lackey

'Magic Mike' is about guys learning that sometimes you can't control your life; you have to trust your intentions and instincts and let the road take you where it wants to go. It's about trusting that things will make sense when you look back, not when you look forward.
‐‐ Reid Carolin

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
‐‐ Terri Windling

Magic really helped me.
‐‐ David Copperfield

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
‐‐ Teller

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
‐‐ David Blaine

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
‐‐ Criss Angel

Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.
‐‐ MaryJanice Davidson

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you're having an experience that is positive and that you're learning from.
‐‐ Julia Roberts

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
‐‐ Drummond Money-Coutts

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.
‐‐ Shirin Neshat

Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.
‐‐ Sarah Addison Allen

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.
‐‐ Marco Tempest

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
‐‐ Teller

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
‐‐ David Copperfield

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.
‐‐ Marco Tempest

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
‐‐ Edward Coke

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
‐‐ Van Wyck Brooks

Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.
‐‐ Guy Berryman

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
‐‐ Dave Barry

'Magneto' believes that 'Cyclops' and 'Wolverine' both serve a good purpose. But he believes the help they provide only goes so far.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
‐‐ Michael Fassbender

'Magneto' is a tragic figure. He is a man who has stared right into the face of ultimate evil... and he was broken into pieces by what he saw. When he healed, he healed stronger, but he also never fully recovered.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
‐‐ Jim Backus

Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
‐‐ Nichelle Nichols

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
‐‐ Ram Dass

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
‐‐ Karisma Kapoor

Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.
‐‐ Thomas Bulfinch

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
‐‐ Johnny Carson