In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick…

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

— Libba Bray

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

— Mark Twain

A technique is a trick that works.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“Every fool’s greatest success is nothing but to dare to pretend to be clever because this trick works in some people!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Death is the simplest act shrouded by the greatest mystery.”

— Jen Nadol

People think they want to know how magic works, but really they don't. How it works is never as amazing as what the trick…

— Justin Willman

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

— Andre Breton

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that…

— Barack Obama

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

— Paul McCartney

I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding,…

— Alicia Keys

“We fall into the great continuing circle of dancers. Some leave the floor, tired but giddy; others have only just arrived. They are eager…

— Libba Bray

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

— Libba Bray

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell