Best Magician Wisdom
271 Magician quotes by 185 unique authors
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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop…
— Terry Pratchett
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Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard,…
— Peter S. Beagle
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The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human…
— Peter S. Beagle
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
— David Lynch
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Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you…
— Barry Hannah
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One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
— Jonathan Stroud
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You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the…
— Christopher Paolini
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Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly…
— Peter S. Beagle
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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror…
— Sherman Alexie
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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them…
— Peter S. Beagle
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It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.
— Susanna Clarke
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The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as…
— George Balanchine
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Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.
— Jonathan Stroud
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That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians,…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or…
— Lev Grossman
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The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers…
— Yehuda Amichai
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A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret…
— Peter S. Beagle
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This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if…
— Agatha Christie
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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
— Susanna Clarke
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There will be guards,” Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.” “Magicians can do…
— Rick Riordan
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Once I saw Desjardins’ house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue…
— Rick Riordan
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