A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
Harvey Fierstein

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
Max von Sydow

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Caroline Gordon

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
Andrea Thompson

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
Rupert Grint

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
Raymond Chandler

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
Dar Williams

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
Alan Parsons

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
Aaron Allston

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
Andy Hertzfeld

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Jean Anouilh

Art is a sense of magic.
Stan Brakhage

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno