Effects Quote by Ricky Jay Download Open image “Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.” — Ricky Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effects Lying Magic Pleasure Real Transmission
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do,… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Researchers say that when you lie, you generate feelings of stress, which are bad for you. — Mazher Copy Share Image
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot… — George Crabbe 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
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
