Quotes by Magic There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. Laura Esquivel magictechnologynaturepeople I don't think I should be telling you every 10 minutes what to think. I like to leave the audience alone with the magic. I tend to trust the material, or I don't do it. Jack O'Brien aloneyoumagictrust I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee. David Bailey picturespictureadvertisingmagic Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!' David Brin foolsopennothingmagic Magic is my paint. David Copperfield magicpaint Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease. David Perlmutter doctorwillmagicdisease It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it. Deborah Eisenberg firstprizemagichonor 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 magicsciencewayworld I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog. Deborah Harkness queenlibrarymagicbook I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983. Deborah Harkness studyinggoodmagicwork The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells. Deborah Harkness magicstarsactionworld Magic should get under people's skins. Derren Brown getmagicshouldpeople What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques. Derren Brown footgotbigmagic Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better. Derren Brown getting-betterbetteryoumagic And the nature of magic is all in the person's experience. Whether the magician is using a highly complex sleight of hand or he's just got two cards that are the same, it doesn't matter: it's how it's sold and how magical it is for the person that matters. Derren Brown magicexperiencenaturematter If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people. Derren Brown mostyoumagicpeople I know I wouldn't have made the callback for 'Ma' if my father's house had not burned down because I would have been in finals. My teachers would not have been chill with me leaving in the middle of my Medieval Magic final. Diana Silvers mechillmagicfather To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio. Douglas Brinkley hillmagicquietlife 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 magicnatureimpossiblescience I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind. Drummond Money-Coutts magicmysterymindschool«96979899100101102103104105106»
