The real secret of magic lies in the performance. — David Copperfield
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
Magic is easy if you put your heart into it. — Michael Jackson
In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary. — Dai Vernon
Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it. — James Randi
All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation. — Eugene Burger
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
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
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. — Charles de Lint
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
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. — Marco Tempest
Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does. — Karl Germain
A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician. — Harry Houdini
Short Magic Tricks Quotes
I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic. — Illeana Douglas
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth. — Giordano Bruno
Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes. — John Travolta
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. — Foka Gomez
A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence. — Dai Vernon
There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen. — Sidney Sheldon
An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect. — Harry Houdini
Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will. — Dion Fortune
the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball — Dolly Parton
Magic Tricks Image Quotes
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Find The Magic Quotes
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious. — Marian Keyes
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts. — Frida Kahlo
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. — Maya Lin
When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you. — Betty Sue Flowers
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital. — Vincent Canby
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. — Joan Didion
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical. — Yo-Yo Ma
You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws. — Franz Bardon
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. — J. K. Rowling
Magic Tricks Explained Quotes
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing. — Derren Brown
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
A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder. — Dave Matthews
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over. — Larry Niven
Card Tricks Quotes
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
Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more. — Sayings
If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff. — Colin Morgan
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. — Proverbs
"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
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins. — Rich Sommer
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
Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick. — Michael Ammar
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
Magic Show Quotes
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits. — Ellen Muth
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art. — Charlie Sheen
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night. — Bruce Springsteen
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc. — John Hench
Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me. — Bruce Springsteen
For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go. — Omar Khayyam
I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own. — Alfred Doblin
Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now. — Ira Glass
I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me. — Aubrey Plaza
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Optical Illusion Quotes
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion. — Albert Einstein
Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion. — Henry van de Velde
There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. — Jenna Marbles
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. — Marcel Proust
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. — Tom Holt
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive. — Lord Byron
You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you. — David Blaine
I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME! — J. K. Rowling
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light. — Jeff Bridges
It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical. — Kerry Joyce
If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly. — Chogyam Trungpa
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic. — Criss Angel
A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals. — Harlan Tarbell
Movies are like magic tricks. — Jeff Bridges
From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough. — David Copperfield
I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic. — Charles Bukowski
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician. — David Copperfield
If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic. — Thomas Bangalter
I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public. — Johnny Carson
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. — Charles de Lint
The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks. — Eugene Burger
The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does. — Martin Gardner
Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish. — William Gibson
Whenever I'm in need of inspiration and mantras, I go straight to simple affirmations. 'I am strong', 'I am brave', 'I can do this' and 'I'm awesome'. Whatever you put after 'I am', you will become. 'I am' are the two most powerful words, so make sure what you say after 'I am' is what you want to experience. It's like a magic trick. — Jason Mraz
Never apologize, it's all part of the trick. — Harry Lorayne
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence
If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live. — Herbert M. Shelton
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic. — Richard Dawkins
We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. — Lance Burton
My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well. — Matthew McConaughey
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
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work. — Merlin Mann
My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic. — Michael Jackson
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. — Neil Gaiman
You have to really make sure that every moment means something, and that every moment, there's a purpose for it. And then you have to blend it all together without it looking like you're really focusing on it. That, to me, was the magic trick that was most difficult for the film [Buried]. — Ryan Reynolds
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
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. — Marco Tempest
A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it . . . but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me. — Keith Barry
Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic. — Dick Christian
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