So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.
As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.
Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.
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.
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.
Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.
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 am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes.
Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Schmedrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, "That's what heroes are for.
A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.
No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
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.
I've always been so attracted to magic.
A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.
