Howard Thurston Quotes

#1. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Howard Thurston

#2. I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

Brian Wilson

#3. Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen.

Howard Thurston

#4. There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are men who call other men theirs, but yet have never set eyes on the other men, and their sole relation to those other men consists of doing them evil.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

Howard Thurston

#6. It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.

Miyavi

#7. I don't believe in courtship, it's a waste of time. If I love the person, I'll tell her right away. But for you, I'll make an exemption: Just love me now, and I will court you forever.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

#8. It was the truest, purest, saddest thing she had ever heard spoken. It was like hearing gospel for the first time, how it shocked you, how it made you afraid because you thought no one could see inside you.

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. The average man is not hard to mystify.

Howard Thurston

#10. In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.

Peter Lynch