One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster.… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Being the executive producer of a film is not that difficult. It just means that you have some power. There's not a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus,… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
...most warriors only perform tricks. The way of the warrior is filled with soul and feeling — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
. . . people use tricks to get you to think the way they do or take away something you have that… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image