To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“Magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren't nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“Childermass laughed. “You are right, Vinculus. You are not like the others. That is my life – there on the table. But… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Doctor Ambrosius smiled slightly. "You and all the others here, are-or rather, one day will be-magicians." Spirit broke into a disbelieving laugh.… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I watched comics the way other people watch magicians. 'How do they do that?' It was always mesmerizing to me, but I… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image