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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. -- Ben Hecht
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -- Ouida
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. -- Ben Okri
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. -- Charles Dickens
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. -- Raymond E. Feist
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. -- Edward Steichen
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy. -- Steve Martin
I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology. -- Criss Angel
Magician is the best storyteller in the world. -- Amit Kalantri
I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis
I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats. -- Merlin Mann
Ever helped a Magician before? No? Well, you're not helping one now, either! -- The Amazing Johnathan
For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade. -- Charles Stross
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. -- Aleister Crowley
A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals. -- Harlan Tarbell
Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies. -- Conrad Veidt
The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system. -- Trudi Canavan
'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system. -- Trudi Canavan
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. -- Raymond E. Feist
At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!) -- Mick McCarthy
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book. -- C. S. Lewis
Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!" -- Mitch Hedberg
The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents. -- Trudi Canavan
Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Persephone said."The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Hillary Clinton ripped FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday. She said she can't understand how FBI documents could vanish and then mysteriously reappear. She has to say that or she'd be thrown out of the Magician's Society. -- Argus Hamilton
For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play. -- Garry Kasparov
Once I saw Desjardins' house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue des Pyramids. "Pyramids Road?" Sadie said. "Obvious, much?" "Maybe he couldn't find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street," I suggested. -- Rick Riordan
Do not be a magician - be magic! -- Leonard Cohen
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. -- David Copperfield
Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician. -- Janice Dickinson
A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician. -- Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself... -- Edward Steichen
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. -- David Copperfield
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable. -- Teller
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. -- James Weldon Johnson
God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life. -- Pope Francis
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling! -- Kailash Kher
I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage. -- Penn Jillette
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. -- Marco Tempest
We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet. -- Dalai Lama
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years. -- David Pogue
I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman. -- Ashton Kutcher
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line. -- David Blaine
If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed. -- David K. Shipler
Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room. -- Criss Angel
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. -- Roberto Benigni
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me. -- Hans Rosling
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat. -- Alan Moore
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio. -- Ira Glass
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. -- Mark Twain
Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both. -- Chuck Close
I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way. -- John Wooden
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? -- Orson Welles
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. -- Claire Tomalin
To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians. -- Ricky Jay
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back. -- Michael Caine
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. -- Barbara Tuchman
I'm a magician, not a singer. -- David Copperfield
There is no magician like love. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Cameron Rogers writes like a magician. -- K. J. Bishop
God is a scientist, not a magician. -- Albert Einstein
Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano. -- Anthony Davis
All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician. -- Penn Jillette
A bad magician never gets the good props. -- Amit Kalantri
perhaps the only magician we have is the artist. -- Anais Nin
He's a ghost, not a carnival magician.-Benny Imura -- Jonathan Maberry
Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke. -- Charles Dickens
The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it. -- Tanith Lee
People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician. -- Ruud Gullit
A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances. -- Amit Kalantri
As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques. -- Steve Truglia
Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician. -- Amit Kalantri
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible. -- Marcel Marceau
The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye. -- Sol Stein
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness -- Marie Louise De La Ramee
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan. -- Orson Welles
Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing. -- Barbara de Angelis
I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician. -- Harry Houdini
I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician. -- Sharon Stone
Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed. -- Franz Bardon
I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does. -- Doug Henning
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. -- Sue Grafton
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. -- Karl Germain
The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The intuitive magician will find a certain relationship between the earth zone and the muladhara center. -- Franz Bardon
The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist. -- Amit Kalantri
First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects. -- Amit Kalantri
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality. -- Tom Stoppard
I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks. -- Blake Michael
There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen. -- Sidney Sheldon
...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence..." -- John Geddes
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. -- Amit Kalantri
Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's. -- Ray Bradbury
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. -- Charles Fort
A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation. -- Amit Kalantri
Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind. -- Emily Dickinson
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. -- Jonathan Stroud
As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe. -- Rick Riordan
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.... -- Hugh Prather
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies. -- Domenico Gnoli
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws. -- Alan Moore
You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted. -- T.H. White
We don't have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon." "You've got a magician named Mel? -- Rick Riordan
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people. -- Susanna Clarke
The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock. -- Peter S. Beagle
I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with. -- Michael Scott
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! -- David Lynch
The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock." -- Peter S. Beagle

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