Magician Quotes - Page 10

• I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Reading, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, 2003.

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• The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Memories, Father, Taken

  Yehuda Amichai, “My Father”

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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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• 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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• 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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• You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.

  Criss Angel

  Believe, Years, Long

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• Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

  Primo Levi

  Ideas, Alchemist, Gold

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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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• There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.

  RZA

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

  Gary Reilly

  Rivers, Rabbits, Capes

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• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

  Martin Luther

  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.

  Cesar Aira

  Greatness, Magic, Use

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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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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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• If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.

  Scott Cunningham

  Love Life, Honor, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (1991). “Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.196, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Fashion, Technology, Civilization

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.90, Weiser Books

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• A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

  Bill Gaede

  Location, Infinity, Adjectives

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• Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

  Zeena Schreck

  Baby, Children, Sacred

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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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• I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

  Merlin Mann

  Way, Hats, Projects

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• Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Perfect, Gold, Illusion

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• Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

  Ricky Jay

  Moving, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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