I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
“Sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary.… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“Scott doesn’t suspect anything, right?” I ask. “Are you kidding? He knows pretty much everything,” Travis says as if there was ever… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
“The poet he was escorting into Wales was a Horus-headed dud of some personal magnetism. The hair was feathered gell, the nose… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some… — Justin Willman Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
This one guy, the worst guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
“We're going nowhere, " Joan said grimly. Traffic on the narrow street was at a complete standstill. A chill settled in Sophie's… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“The life of the grownups had caught me, at first by a lock of hair or a finger, but soon it would… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
That's how I lived for 10 years in Bristol after graduating. I just stayed in my student flat and paid very little… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was… — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
“We were halfway back to the fireplace when Set caught us by surprise. He was going on with his list of ridiculous… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Many people forget that magick is all about change, and the greatest change is the inner, not the outer, landscape. Outer magickal… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I believe, or sense, that the universe has not been constructed from a purely mechanical, logical, rational point of view, but there… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“Who was he?” “A magician who took me in after I left the Bone-master. On his good days, he tried to teach… — Sage Blackwood Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“He is quiet and small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty… — Catherynne M. Valente 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
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