Magician Quotes - Page 10

• I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

  C. S. Lewis

  Nephew, Remarks, Objects

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• For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

  C. S. Lewis

  Justice, Nephew, Speech

  "The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew".

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• Best Witchcraft is Geometry
  To the magician's mind -
  His ordinary acts are feats
  To thinking of mankind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1006, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Doe

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• The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Grief, Men, Speech

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

  Deb Caletti

  Liars, Ifs

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

  Fernando Alonso

  Two, Parent, Magic

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• The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Magic In The World, Green

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving Up, Soul, Puppets

  "The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

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• 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

  Thinking, Light, Wizards

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• Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

  Barry Hannah

  Believe, Night, Rabbits

  Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Stupid, Pyramids, Evil

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Practice, Class

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.

  Betty Wright

  Mother, Children, First Love

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• Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit out of a hat. Do something! What tricks does this guy have? "I'm in a box...and I ain't gonna eat.". "I'm in a box... and I ain't gonna eat!!" That ain't no trick! That's called living in the projects!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fall, Writing, Boys

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Country, Reading

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Vegetables, Nephew

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.100, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.

  Merlin Stone

  Unique, Egypt, Isis

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.12, Doubleday

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• 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

  Guy, Grandfather, Friendly

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Power, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.293

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• My acts are irrevocable
  Because they have no essence...
  Where are the doers of deeds
  Absent among their conditions?
  Imagine a magician
  Who creates a creature
  Who creates other creatures.
  Acts I perform are creatures
  Who create others.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Essence, Deeds, Doers

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• In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Fall, Dark

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850). “The Boston book: being specimens of metropolitan literature”, p.362

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• Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

  Peter Ustinov

  Flower, Epic, Artist

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