Quotes about Magic

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

He felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.

There are always mystical countries that are a part of one's childhood. Those we remember and visit sometimes when we are asleep and dreaming. They are as lovely at night as they were when we were children. If you ever go back to see them they are not there. But they are as fine in the night as they ever were if you have the luck to dream of them.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

I probably know everything there is to know about Disney.

tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it in large letters.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.