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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
- 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
- Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks
- 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
- Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath… — 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… — Amy Tan