If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life. . . it's the magic words "I don't know. " I mean, there are certain basic principles, like the dignity of the individual and the individual's responsibility, and certain basic economic principles, like how when something costs less, more of it will be consumed. . . There are certain things that I feel pretty confident about.
The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.
Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic really is, and that meaning alone is now assignable to the term.
If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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.
Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.
What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic. . . when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
I'm trying to earn everything given to me. I play hard and I want guys to remember that when they play the Magic they have to face Dwight Howard. And when you face him you have to get after it.
The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.
Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.