Sleight Of Hand Quotes

15 Sleight Of Hand quotes by 13 unique authors

• 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 invented. — Josiah Stamp
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
• 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:

• 3 Sleight Of Hand Quotes by Ricky Jay
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by William Congreve
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Stuart Wilde
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Rodney Brooks
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Maria Tatar
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Jostein Gaarder
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Josiah Stamp
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Jon Landau
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Jeff McBride
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Ellen Hopkins
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Derren Brown
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by David Lehman
• 1 Sleight Of Hand Quote by Amy Tan