The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood. – Dennis Potter
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits. – Ellen Muth
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. – Margot Fonteyn
I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time. – Dolly Parton
Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn’t take 18 weeks. – MaryJanice Davidson
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can’t really perform live at all – don’t really have jobs and skills. – Penn Jillette
People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, ‘Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?’ Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand. – Drew Houston
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. – Eugene O’Neill
I now find magic in the mundane. I’m also more creative – better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles. – Deborah Norville
When you’re rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you’re not pushing it. – Nadine Velazquez
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
That creates the magic, and that’s the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is. – Mick Fleetwood
For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights. – Penn Jillette
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It’s a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. – Gary Gygax
My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible – like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school. – Carmen Busquets
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
The magic of the American experience is that we’ve upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law. – Paul Gosar
When I’m an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don’t know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that’s what excites me. – Meredith Monk
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
One thing changes every evening: It’s the audience, and I’m working my magic. I’m always learning from it. – Eli Wallach
