Card Trick Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Lemony Snicket

#3. It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

Bill Hicks

#4. Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

Fanny Brice

#5. You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Ann Patchett

#6. And though many women might enjoy the offering of such compliments, I did not want him to love me based on temporal things like a smile or voice or presence, things that could vanish through mood or an unexpected cloud. He must love me for the sake of love alone ...

Nancy Moser

#7. No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Bill Cosby

#8. Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. [President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.

Peter Jennings

#10. It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Dalai Lama

#12. I'd learned pretty early on that men were basic creatures. Take away their suits and wives and jobs and responsibilities, and you're left with a beast. A beast who wanted to spar and maim - to embrace their inner savage.

Pepper Winters

#13. This is like some Lord of the Rings shit! We're about to enter Mordor!

Jill Myles

#14. A Collect for the Presence of Christ Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know you as you are revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of your love. Amen.

John Wallace

#15. Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!

Jonathan Knight

#16. Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card ... I've already seen this trick ...

Michael Ammar

#17. Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.

Paul Doherty