“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“There are spaces between the events we see where things get past us. Magicians know this too, with their sleight of hand… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Your prowess with a lightsaber is childish vanity. Your physical Force powers are no more than a conjurer's trick, sleight of hand… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff.… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
“She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“Too often critics have taken as the sole and crucial matter of fantasy the preoccupation of Tolkien, the quest for a remedy… — Roz Kaveney Copy Share Image
Well you know, the big trick with 'Saw,' the sleight of hand that you have to pull off is that - spoiler… — Leigh Whannell 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
“I don’t do magic tricks because I am happy; I’m happy because I do magic tricks.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand,… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not… — Jason Ralph Copy Share Image
I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
“Kerényi was as aware as anybody today of the territorial limits of Greek myths and of the non-importability of Hermes. He writes:… — Karl Kerényi Copy Share Image
“When Isaac Newton embarked on his great program, he encountered a fundamental lack of definition where it was most needed. He began… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“A trial is not a science fair, but rather a magic show. A show based on appearances and logical fallacies and sleight… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“What sleight of hand do you hold, vixen?" He clearly enjoyed bantering with her. Tick-tock, tick-tock.” — Anonymous 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
And the nature of magic is all in the person's experience. Whether the magician is using a highly complex sleight of hand… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
