Good Magician Quotes

#1. Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#2. 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

#3. A good magician wasn't much different from a proper thief.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. One of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that "fat" in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book." Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. "And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

Lita Burke

#6. Mass was like grand opera, a magic show with the most expensive props in town. And faith, a sleight of hand trick, in which one was both the magician and the audience; the deceiver and the deceived. Still, who could resist a good magic trick?

Kathleen Tessaro

#7. To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

David Letterman

#8. Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

Orville Wright

#9. Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

T.F. Hodge

#10. I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Lev Grossman

#11. The secret of good magic is another magic.

Amit Kalantri

#12. Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

Bruce Oldfield

#13. [...] a white magician is just a black magician with a good housekeeper.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#15. All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

Penn Jillette

#16. I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not.

Michael Cox

#17. For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

Ricky Jay

#18. And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

C.S. Lewis

#19. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Malcolm Forbes

#20. Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

Orson Welles

#21. 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

#22. A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.

Debasish Mridha

#23. A bad magician never gets the good props.

Amit Kalantri

#24. It would be like Prospero's island, but in a good way: not a country of exile, a model world, safe and peaceful and private. A magician's land.

Lev Grossman

#25. Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

James Weldon Johnson

#26. The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

John Ashcroft

#27. I think men and women will both agree that one of the perks of being single on Valentine's Day is that you get to keep your money in your pocket.

Sevyn Streeter

#28. I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.

Ira Glass

#29. Ceony shut the book and glanced to her new teacher. "It's . . . amazing, but I admit it's also superficial. Aesthetic."
"But entertaining," he combated. "Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it's something everyone wants.

Charlie N. Holmberg