One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
Penn Jillette

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
Eli Wallach

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
Ben Okri

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
Robert MacNeil

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Temple Grandin

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.
Todd Barry

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Paul Simon

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
Lou Reed

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
Rick Springfield

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
Emanuel Celler

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
Charlie Hunter

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
Kenneth Branagh

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
Bill Sienkiewicz