Magic Quotes - Page 38

• A magic effect is never completely finished.

  Jay Sankey

  Effects, Finished

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• As wonderful as it is, not everyone likes magic. Try to only share your magic with people who enjoy it.

  Jay Sankey

  People, Trying, Likes

  FaceBook post by Jay Sankey from Sep 18, 2016

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• These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world.

  Jay Sankey

  World, Maps

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• I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

  John Lahr

  Theatre, Culture, Literature

  Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr (2002). “The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

  Barbara Pym

  Lonely, Men, Self

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

  Homer Hickam

  Wall, Real, Hero

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.27, Dell

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• If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.

  Richard Osterlind

  Believe, Pretending, Audience

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• Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.

  Tony Andruzzi

  People, Black, Church

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• The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

  Doreen Valiente

  Circles, Feelings, Atmosphere

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present”, p.372, The Crowood Press

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• Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

  Jamy Ian Swiss

  Taken, Profound, Looks

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• It is important as a mentalist to notice small things about people... little things such as being able to tell if someone is right or left handed by looking at which way their belt is pointing. Looking at a book of matches will tell you if they are right or left handed by the side the matches are removed.... It's important to notice these things because the more you do, the more you will realize that each person has little psychological nuances that tell you a lot about the individual. Doing so will tremendously sharpen your skills.

  Banachek

  Book, Skills, People

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• Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

  James Randi

  Shadow, Going For It, Want

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• [Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

  Patrick Martin

  People, Mind, Window

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• In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

  Derren Brown

  Art, Interesting, Use

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• The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

  Martin Gardner

  Trying, Doe, Scientist

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• Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

  Adam Gopnik

  Mind, Mazes, Lovers

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Wonder is the first of all the passions.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Firsts, Wonder

  Rene Descartes (1989). “Passions of the Soul”, p.52, Hackett Publishing

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• Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

  Jamy Ian Swiss

  Giving, Looks, Mime

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• If there is a single secret, then it can be simply put. Think big, create, plan, rethink (even bigger) then prepare, practice and perform.

  David Berglas

  Thinking, Practice, Secret

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• Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Taken, Simple, Giving

  Jim Steinmeyer, Teller (2009). “Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

  Mark Thomas

  Believe, Mushrooms, Police

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• It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

  Bruce Tognazzini

  Book, Simplicity, Design

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• If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Pitching, Formulas

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• By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

  George B. McClellan

  War, Land, Strange

  George B. McClellan (1998). “McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union”, p.82, Digital Scanning Inc

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• You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

  Elias Canetti

  Names, Statistics, Dangerous

  Elias Canetti (1964). “Auto-da-fé”, New York : Stein and Day

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