Sleight Of Hand Quotes
15 Sleight Of Hand quotes by 13 unique authors
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If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level.
— Jeff McBride
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The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.
— Josiah Stamp
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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…
— Derren Brown
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Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and…
— Maria Tatar
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Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us…
— Rodney Brooks
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Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand…
— Stuart Wilde
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Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to…
— David Lehman
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Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence…
— Ricky Jay
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I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of…
— Ricky Jay
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In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food,…
— Ricky Jay
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Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks -…
— Jon Landau
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I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand…
— Amy Tan
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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
— William Congreve
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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
Who Wrote These Sleight Of Hand Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Sleight Of Hand Quotes as follows: