Best Magicians Quotes

#1. But then, liars do make the best magicians, and he happened to be exceptional.

Lisa Maxwell

#2. The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something.

Alberto Alvaro Rios

#3. Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians ... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

Chuck Close

#4. A good magician's performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder. It's a bud that unfurls into a flower, meant to woo the audience.

Laura Lam

#5. Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Amit Kalantri

#6. Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?" "That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins." "Magic penguins?" "Don't ask.

Rick Riordan

#7. As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.

Peter J. Carroll

#8. A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

Amit Kalantri

#9. The healers' university looked exactly as Tessia had imagined. Her father had described it as an 'old but strange building that has adopted and absorbed surrounding houses as opportunity and funds allowed'. It sounded confusing and intriguing, and it was.

Trudi Canavan

#10. ...for most men are unaware that what is in the power of magicians to accomplish, that the heart can also accomplish by dint of love and bravery.

Joseph Bedier

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

Jamy Ian Swiss

#12. Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician ... and we were all born to be magicians.

Dianna Hardy

#13. What pleasure is there in life without beauty?" Dulcie slid a silken blue fold down so her right hip bone showed, and nodded with approval.
"Beauty won't fill your belly or keep you warm."
Dulcie chuckled. "You might be surprised.

Susan Scott

#14. I only wish he had not married," said Mr. Norell fretfully. "Magicians have no business marrying.

Susanna Clarke

#15. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Amit Kalantri

#16. I've known a good many magicians myself in India - mango plant and all. But the Indian ones are all frauds, I'll swear.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Before she could touch him, he stepped back. "I've no need of a human."
"Half-Light," she corrected, still meeting his gaze in the surface. "I've no need of a dragon magician.

Susan Scott

#18. That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

Erin Morgenstern

#19. General belief is "There is no real magic, only tricks" but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".

Amit Kalantri

#20. Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

Amit Kalantri

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

Andrew Mayne

#22. Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

Aleister Crowley

#23. Dreams are great magicians.

Lucian Of Samosata

#24. Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic.

Matt Posner

#25. There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.

Laura Lam

#26. You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think.
-Angela the Herbalist

Christopher Paolini

#27. I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

Susanna Clarke

#28. Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Amit Kalantri

#29. Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

Criss Angel

#30. Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

David Copperfield

#31. It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

Susanna Clarke

#32. Even the best SEOs are not magicians. They can't simply place a site at the top of the engines when there are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of others that offer basically the same thing, and provide basically the same information. If they could, you'd see a whole lot more millionaire SEOs.

Jill Whalen

#33. The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.

Carl Sagan

#34. Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

Penn Jillette

#35. If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

Deb Caletti

#36. Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#37. Unfortunately most magicians are immune to their own magic. We see behind the veil, we live inside the nuts and bolts, the element of surprise is lost on us. But we can help each other.

Menna Van Praag

#38. For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Thomas Paine

#40. A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

Amit Kalantri

#41. 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

#42. Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not.

Trudi Canavan