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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic. -- Harry Anderson
"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary. -- Martin Mayer
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else. -- Robert Benchley
Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more. -- Fanny Brice
It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. -- Bill Hicks
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. -- Jean Hugard
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. -- Daniel Handler
Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks. -- Sam Riley
I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo. -- Steve Martin
Not that it was a crazy complicated skill, but operating an espresso machine during high traffic could be added to my repertoire along with card tricks and how to fire a Colt .45.(Quote taken from ARC, subject to change) -- Karina Halle
Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice. -- Steve Buscemi
My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book. -- Steve Valentine
All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. -- Kevin Mitnick
When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box. -- Philippe Petit

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