Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either. — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
'The Magician's 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
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Don't you mind being short?' she blurted. He spread his small hands and looked at them. 'I am a magician, not a… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians. — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The Great Work of Magic is the collapsing of the future into the immediate present; the magician seizes reality and lives now,… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
The only nickname I've ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don't know why. — Tim Duncan Copy Share Image
In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image