Doug Henning Quotes

#1. I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'

Doug Henning

#2. The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

Doug Henning

#3. The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#4. Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

Doug Henning

#5. It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

Doug Henning

#6. No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

Kathryn Stockett

#7. Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

Doug Henning

#8. One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard. Which

Jennifer Niven

#9. Maybe this was a better way, even though it seemed alien. To be part of this amorphous group, believing love could come from any direction. So you wouldn't be disappointed if not enough came from the direction you'd hoped. -

Emma Cline

#10. I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There'll be a problem if it's supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don't think Poland has anything to say about it.

Marek Belka

#11. The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

Doug Henning

#12. I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

Doug Henning

#13. He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

Doug Henning

#15. ... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

Homer

#16. I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

Bethany Cosentino

#17. If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Doug Henning

#18. The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

Doug Henning

#19. Scars on the back are a swordsman's shame.

Zoro

#20. The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other: all night long. It's not too cold in that bed, and it ain't too hot. But what's the matter? The blues has got you.

Huddie William Ledbetter

#21. When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

Doug Henning

#22. When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

Doug Henning

#23. Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous. A lot of people lose that. They become cynical and jaded, especially in modern day society. Magic renews that wonder.

Doug Henning

#24. If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

Michael Rooker

#25. His lips are soft and warm and fit mine like the answer to an equation I didn't know I was trying to solve.

Kiersten White

#26. The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.

Stanislav Grof

#27. I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

Sandra Cisneros