Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve 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
“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
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
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to… — Maria Tatar 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
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 suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's… — Ricky Jay 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
“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
“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his… — Charles Dickens 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
“I hope that I will never let you down. I know that this can be more than just flashing lights and sound.… — Thrice 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
'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
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
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
![“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart a little more carefully, he would have found he could not resist. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses…” quote by Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/686/charles-dickens-34_character_persuading-himself-that-he-was-a-most-co_2393256.jpg)
![“When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.” quote by Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dea/derren-brown-3112_aces_when-the-magician-clicks-his-fingers-and_2100588.jpg)
