“So you got me," Ozzy admitted. "I like her. The woman burns words the way a magician burns flash paper - quickly… — Julie Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“…though he no longer wanted to be a magician, he still had magic in his hands. I knew because when he squeezed… — Dinah Jefferies Copy Share Image
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time.… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Don’t be fooled by clever hands, sir” the Sunlight Man said. He’d be lying with the back of his head on his… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning… — Owen Davies Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“What had he witnessed? She had looked like a wild and beautiful creature, a goddess, something ethereal and undecipherable. Dina had filled… — Nadia El-Fassi 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
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at.… — Robert Barnes Copy Share Image
This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But… — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“The Fool, the Zero card, dressed in motley, dazzled face to the sky, foot about to come off the cliff. Pierrot. It… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“The unicorn was gray and still. "There is magic on me," she said. "Why did you not tell me?" "I thought you… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Very few are brave enough to look at the portals to higher dimensions of conscience that open before their eyes, either they’re… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy .… — William James Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“For the true magician there is no very clear line between what lies inside the mind and what lies outside it.If you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Brother dear,” I said, “did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The world was fucking awful. It was a wretched, desolate place, a desert of meaninglessness, a heartless wasteland, where horrific things happened… — Lev Grossman 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
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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