Being true Quote by Ricky Jay Download Open image “If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.” — Ricky Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being true Ifs Reality Sound Too good to be true Truth
They say if it's too good to be true, it usually is..... Unless it's me. — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
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… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that I actually… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
