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  • Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. -- David Copperfield
  • Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years. -- Teller
  • Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story. -- Marco Tempest
  • I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men. -- Matt McGorry
  • 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
  • Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself. -- Marco Tempest
  • Magicians guard an empty safe. -- Jim Steinmeyer
  • Magicians perform magic, I do magick! -- Stephen Richards
  • Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial. -- Jamy Ian Swiss
  • I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats. -- Merlin Mann
  • Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth. -- Giordano Bruno
  • I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there. -- Hale Appleman
  • Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage. -- David Copperfield
  • Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. -- Marco Tempest
  • Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it. -- James Randi
  • I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone. -- Lev Grossman
  • Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.' -- Teller
  • The Magicians 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
  • 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
  • Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman. -- Jim Carrey
  • There will be guards," Bast said. "And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods." "Magicians can do that?" I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away. -- Rick Riordan
  • I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians. -- Hale Appleman
  • The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It's like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass. -- Naomi Novik
  • I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am. -- Christopher Lee
  • It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. -- David Copperfield
  • For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. -- Steve Carell
  • The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. -- Ricky Jay
  • Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team. -- Teller
  • I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. -- Francis Ford Coppola
  • In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. -- Billy Joel
  • 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
  • Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast. -- Ricky Jay
  • 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 was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic. -- Ricky Jay
  • Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible. -- David Ayer
  • My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. -- Roberto Benigni
  • I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • 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 on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians. -- Ricky Jay
  • I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers. -- Lance Burton
  • 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
  • You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years. -- Criss Angel
  • Most magicians are afraid of magic. -- Max Maven
  • Great liars are also great magicians. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic. -- Dick Christian
  • Dogs are the magicians of the universe. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? -- Deb Caletti
  • The very earliest people who made film were magicians. -- Francis Ford Coppola
  • It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment, -- John Henry Anderson
  • It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know. -- Susanna Clarke
  • I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians. -- David Copperfield
  • One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver. -- Barry Nolan
  • Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on -- Jamy Ian Swiss
  • Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard. -- Yoko Ono
  • Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians. -- Durgesh Satpathy
  • Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards -- Darwin Ortiz
  • In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. -- James G. Frazer
  • Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. -- Barbara Tuchman
  • Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities. -- Adam Gopnik
  • Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians. -- Andrew Mayne
  • Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's. -- Ray Bradbury
  • A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion. -- Jim Steinmeyer
  • Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians. -- Samuel Beckett
  • Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man. -- Thomas Paine
  • I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most. -- Susanna Clarke
  • In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could. -- Susanna Clarke
  • Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians. -- Zeena Schreck
  • I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. -- Brian Selznick
  • That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology. -- Ian Mckellen
  • Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that. -- Jerry Andrus
  • Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. -- Jonathan Stroud
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  • To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so. -- George Santayana
  • Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks. -- David Ayer
  • Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians. -- Christopher Penczak
  • Since love is a magic, Valentine's Day is the day of magicians! Whoever loves creates a magic; whoever is loved, a magic is created! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians? -- Aziz Ansari
  • To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. -- Rick Riordan
  • Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore. -- Stan Lee
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  • I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos. -- Logan Lerman
  • You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist -- Christopher Paolini
  • I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story. -- Dave Attell
  • The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians. -- Alan Moore
  • I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested. -- Ricky Jay
  • I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested. -- Ricky Jay
  • It takes a long time to educate a community and it can't be done by spellbinders, moneybags, hypnotizers or magicians or Aladdin's lamp. Character is what matters on a paper -- Harry J. Grant
  • Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. -- Terry Pratchett
  • If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? -- Deb Caletti
  • The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers. -- Harry Houdini
  • The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there. -- Billy Beane
  • Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience. -- Dai Vernon
  • Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • [Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment. -- James Randi
  • He nodded nervously. "?He looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.' I stared at him. "?You're scared of bunnies?' "?Blah-hah-hah! They're big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs. -- Rick Riordan
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