“Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it. — James Randi 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
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
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
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
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 asked Mr. Thurston to tell me the secret of his success... Thurston had a genuine interest in people. He told me… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“The magicians of the Golden Dawn built a history that now appears inaccurate but was cutting edge for its time. They haunted… — Gordon White 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
“...for most men are unaware that what is in the power of magicians to accomplish, that the heart can also accomplish by… — Joseph Bédier Copy Share Image
“The York magicians had all looked over the letter and expressed their doubts that any body with such small handwriting could ever… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Magicians—that was what they were, the whole lot of them. Master manipulators trying to pull quarters out of her ears and orgasms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image