Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

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.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

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.

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

I walk in the realm of the supernatural.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

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.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

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.

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

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

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

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 …

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

I would like to do a role that has something to do with mysticism or even a supernatural one.

Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.