Magician Quotes · Page 10

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Lev Grossman

“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.”

— Orville Wright

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

— James G. Frazer

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist…

— Dennis DeYoung

“The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

— Blake Michael

“Each night, your dreams come to inspire you to bring out the magic in your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a…

— Lance Burton

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make…

— Lev Grossman

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in…

— Raymond Smullyan

Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the…

— Ricky Jay

Working with Michael Jackson was awesome. He was an incredible entertainer, dancer, singer, magician, everything, and he was really sweet, too.

— Orianthi

Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but…

— Amit Kalantri

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point,…

— Bill Gaede

“He'd been right about the world, but he was wrong about himself. The word was a desert, but he was a magician,…

— Lev Grossman

The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of…

— Marina Warner

“All knowledge that takes special training to acquire is the province of the Magician energy. Whether you are an apprentice training to…

— Robert L. Moore

“One short man said: "I would give anything if only I were even a tiny bit taller." He barely said it when…

— Daniil Kharms

I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you…

— Jonathan Stroud

“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the…

— Karl Marx

Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism,…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is…

— William Bolitho

“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –”

— Simona Panova

“I’m a magician. I can make food appear—and out of my penis, no less.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

— Pope Francis

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my…

— David Pogue

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with…

— Doug Henning

A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.

— Marcel Marceau

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

— Brian Selznick

I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.

— Hale Appleman

“Back hunched magician with golden knife Notch the velvet green skin of English life Couplet from ‘Dads’ by Mk Bhutta”

— Lecturer M K Bhutta Poet

“...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...”

— John Geddes

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

— Thomas Paine

Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

— John Travolta

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

— Zeena Schreck

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

— C. S. Lewis

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

— Merlin Mann