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- I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or… — Lafcadio Hearn
- If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level. — Jeff McBride
- 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
- When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real… — Derren Brown
- 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
- Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.… — Victoria Glendinning
- Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something… — Peter J. Carroll
- Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political… — Stuart Wilde
- Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and… — David Lehman
- Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had… — Ricky Jay
- 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
- 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