We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.
We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.
It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.
Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.
Touch magic. Pass it on.
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
There is no magic move or secret that creates victory but lots of little items that, when added together, can make you victorious.
It always seemed to me they're sort of alike. . . magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.
Polaroid material has the most beautiful quality - the colors on one side, but then the magic moment in witnessing the image to appear. The time stands still and the act of watching the image develop can be shared with the people around you. In the fast world of today it's nice to slow down for a moment. At the same time Polaroid slows time, it also captures a moment which becomes the past so instantly that the decay of time is even more apparent - it gives the image a certain sentimentality or melancholy.
To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.
Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline.
I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!
Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (. . . ) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
it's a kiss full of promise, of trust and of all that is magic.