Starhawk Quotes

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

I put the ick in magic.

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. “I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.