I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic. – Andre Rieu
There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. – Bill Gates
I’m such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we’ve reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they’re telling us how they’re doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It’d be nice to get a little of the mystery back in. – Colin Trevorrow
I like things that don’t sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There’s air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts. – Chris Stapleton
I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist – got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. – Andy Hertzfeld
At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies. – Brad Feld
The sporting fields where Australia’s greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage. – Anthony Albanese
My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I’m proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it. – Carnie Wilson
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. – Aleister Crowley
When is it too late to say it’s still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future. – Bob Verdi
For me, it’s just more satisfying when you follow the rules rather than just make a bunch of sounds. The magic of just making noise in the studio goes away after a while. – Adam Schlesinger
You’re never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. – Bill Gates
The ‘indistinguishable from magic’ thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech. – Ann Leckie
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that’s really, really, really special. – Ashley Monroe
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years. – Brian Eno
One of the great things to pretend is that you’re not only alright, you’re in great shape. Now to have that come true – I’ve actually gone on stage depressed and that’s worked its magic on me, ’cause if I can convince you that I’m alright, then maybe I can convince me. – Carrie Fisher
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured. – Brian May
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. – Antoine Fuqua
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic. – Bill Sienkiewicz
It was funny to run into girls I knew after the movie came out because they would say, ‘I saw you on ‘Magic Mike,’ but there was this look of embarrassment. It was very cute. – Adam Rodriguez
I’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging… you know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic. – Ahmet Ertegun
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven. – Adam Savage
We all enjoy a magic show, but we don’t demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done. – Brie Larson
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
We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art. – Charlie Sheen
