Best Magician Thoughts
271 Magician quotes by 185 unique authors
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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
— Penn Jillette
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being…
— Billy Joel
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
— James Weldon Johnson
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I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.
— Ashton Kutcher
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For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's…
— Alan Moore
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
— Ben Okri
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming…
— Edward Steichen
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a…
— Orson Welles
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of…
— John Wooden
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Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.
— Samuel Beckett
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The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.
— Peter S. Beagle
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,”…
— Susanna Clarke
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you…
— Tennessee Williams
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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered…
— Michael Chabon
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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real…
— Mark Twain
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..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he…
— Susanna Clarke
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Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read…
— Susanna Clarke
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Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and…
— Susanna Clarke
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I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew
— C.S. Lewis
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Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew
— C.S. Lewis
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The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and…
— Peter S. Beagle
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You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
— T.H. White
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For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew
— C.S. Lewis
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