Magician Quotes - Page 4

• Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

  Samuel Beckett

  Giving, Waiting For Godot, Impression

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

  Steve Carell

  Actors, Performers

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Home, Names

  Charles Dickens, John Forster (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Martin Chugglewit”, p.160

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• Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

  Marcel Marceau

  Invisible, Mime, Visible

  "Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools". Book by Betty McDavid and Lucy Gregor Brown, 1978.

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• Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

  Thomas Paine

  Self Esteem, Men, Titles

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• 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

  Writing, Magic, Literature

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• Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

  Edith Piaf

  Fly Away, Dove, Should

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• Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

  Andrew Mayne

  Ideas, Comedian

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• 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

  Art, Differences, Magic

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• We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.

  Richard Wiseman

  People, Magic, Attention

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• Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Way, Very True

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• 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

  Simple, Glasses, Magic

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• I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

  Orson Welles

  Mirrors, Age, Six

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• 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

  Inspirational, Strong, Home

  "Martin Chuzzlewit". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 35, 1844.

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• He who is going to be a magician will recognize that life is dependent on the work of the elements in the various planes and spheres. It is to be seen in great and in small things, in the microcosm as well as in the macrocosm, temporarily and eternally, everywhere there are powers in action.

  Franz Bardon

  Magic, Elements, Spheres

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• Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

  Giordano Bruno

  Truth, Mean, Physicians

  Giordano Bruno (2013). “Heroic Enthusiasts”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.

  Woody Allen

  Practice, Magic, Used

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• 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

  Jobs, Eye, Hands

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Hands, White, Differences

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• 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

  Art, People, Psychology

  "Interview With Criss Angel". Interview, parade.com. August 28, 2007.

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• I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Brain, Noise

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.599, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love Is, Universe

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.162, Dell

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• There is no magician like love.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Like Love

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.111

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• 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

  Fun, Alchemist, Wizards

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