Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

Every Christmas now for years I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world and behold everything is softer and more beautiful.

Magic like technology is a tool.

My first job after college was at Magic Quest an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job I decided to pursue a career in technology.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

I'm very into science-fantasy that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

When I started out back in Louisville there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful inscrutable magical and more to whosoever will think of it.

Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

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.

Formerly when religion was strong and science weak men mistook magic for medicine now when science is strong and religion weak men mistake medicine for magic.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

There will always be vain obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

Well when I was younger I lied all the time because once you understand the power of lying it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.