Magic Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Stephen Dorff

  Feelings, Too Much, Danger

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• In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

  Michel Gondry

  Crazy, Real, Interesting

  "Michel Gondry Pinch Hits For Tokyo!" by Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2009.

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• You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get you out of class faster than anything else.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Class, Faster

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• Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is awake, walking down the streets, but also at night when she is dreaming or when she is having nightmares. When I am writing, I am always paying tribute to her - to that lady called Reality.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Dream, Real, Writing

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.

  Tommy Wonder

  Casualties, Should, Method

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• Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Littles, Scientist

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• We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

  Albert Pike

  Art, Stars, Spring

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

  Fernando Perez

  Acoustics, Film, Ineffable

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Nhs, Miracle, Superpower

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You have to really make sure that every moment means something, and that every moment, there's a purpose for it. And then you have to blend it all together without it looking like you're really focusing on it. That, to me, was the magic trick that was most difficult for the film [Buried].

  Ryan Reynolds

  Mean, Together, Purpose

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Circles, Meals

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.141, Random House

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• The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Space, Elements

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• Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Culture, Narrative

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Player, Eight

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• 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.

  Mary Karr

  Winning, Want, Subway

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

  Ethan Hawke

  Acting, Truck, Electricity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I took a complete year off the road, but a big part of that year was making 'The Big Revival.' I needed that down time just so I could concentrate. The one thing that starts it all for us is the music. That's what you create in the studio. That's where the magic happens.

  Kenny Chesney

  Years, Revival, Bigs

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Reality, Differences, Knowing

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy is definitely a smart guy, knows what he's doing. He's a basketball genius. So to downplay that and disrespect that, I thought it was stereotyping him way too much.

  Mychal Thompson

  Basketball, Smart, Guy

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was a big Magic Johnson fan. And I guess people who knew that gave a name that... In that vein. I tried to play like him.

  Tim Duncan

  Play, People, Fans

  Interview with Dan Patrick (1998), as quoted in "Tim Duncan was never really impressed by Michael Jordan" by Alonzo Warond, fadeawayworld.com. August 5, 2016.

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• For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

  Diana Ross

  Letting Go, Actresses, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.

  Thomas Pogge

  Loss, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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