“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is. — Harry Anderson Copy Share Image
If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level. — Jeff McBride Copy Share Image
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.” — Amit Kalantri 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
“Between Ricky’s charm and persuasion and Gabriel’s lock picking and sleight of hand, if I took enough lessons, I could become a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Josiah Stamp 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
“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
“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want… — Tariq Ali 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
“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand,… — Keith Barry 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
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
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
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks 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
“The name outlaw Christian describes the kind of Christian I am and the kind I’m setting myself free to become: namely, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The definition of superb animation is that each character on the screen makes you believe it is a thinking being. Whether it’s… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A chef’s magic is his ingredients, how he can substitute one for another, then break with convention by changing it all around… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“A magician creates magic and mesmerizes the audience. But it is a pantomime, and the audience knows that it’s a ruse. It’s… — Laura Lam Copy Share Image
“Kaylee, For over a hundred years, magicians have been pulling objects out of hats. Rabbits, flowers... It's become such a famous trick… — Cassie Mae Copy Share Image
“Honestly, the pair of you" was Edward's response. I brushed cracker crumbs off my homework folder; I'd needed a snack after giving… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
“Unlike when people lived in small communities and could not escape their past behavior, we live in an age of anonymous one-time… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Kaz had never been able to dodge the horror of that night in the Ketterdam harbor, the memory of his brother’s corpse… — Leigh Bardugo 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
“How much better it is to understand it all, to recognise it all, all the impossibilities and the stone wall; not to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“I don’t do magic tricks because I am happy; I’m happy because I do magic tricks.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
