Marco Tempest Quotes

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

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.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

Magic is my paint.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

I don't like magic.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

I really don't believe in magic.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

You don't question magic.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

Magic should get under people's skins.