#magi

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook. ↗

— David Copperfield

#give #hook #i #magic #stage

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing. ↗

— David Copperfield

#better #depending #doing #feel #kind

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#boy #first #first kiss #his #i

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#about #amazing #amazing thing #care #chance

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#collaborates #copy #draw #far #imagination

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#done #having #i #imagine #love

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#being #being famous #come #fame #famous

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium. ↗

— John Dyer

#digital #magic #media #medium #much