Magician Quotes

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The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

I'm a magician, not a singer.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is ..." I don't think that ever existed.

Cameron Rogers writes like a magician.

I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

We don’t have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon.” “You’ve got a magician named Mel?

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic.

Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too

A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.

I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real.-Misty Lee

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

I get lost in the magical beauty that is all around me. My mind is an enchanted magician who mysteriously creates all of that magnificent beauty.

Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.

I don't want any more magic in my life, your love is enough for me!

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.