Jay Sankey Quotes

#1. Mentalism is the art of exploring and revealing hidden connections.

Jay Sankey

#2. These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world.

Jay Sankey

#3. Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

Jay Sankey

#4. I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

Bruce Springsteen

#5. From there, it was time for dinner: roaring fires, meat popping on spits, tofu sizzling on skillets ((it's northern California, a vegetarian option is not optional), and a style of eating and drinking that can only be described as quaffing.

Cory Doctorow

#6. To think of your creations in terms of better or worse- big mistake. They are your children.

Jay Sankey

#7. As wonderful as it is, not everyone likes magic. Try to only share your magic with people who enjoy it.

Jay Sankey

#8. It's one thing to wait at a stop light or in a doctor's office. It's another thing to wait for news upon which your life depends. In those circumstances, our waiting highlights the fact that this situation is completely out of our control. We are totally dependent upon someone else

Alan Kraft

#9. They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

Helmut Newton

#10. There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

Jay Sankey

#11. All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

Kathryn Stockett

#12. It didn't really get easier, per se. Our sadness just got quieter.

Christina Lauren

#13. America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

James Madison

#14. go back to Allah and Rosulnya

Muhammad Isa Dawud

#15. I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

William S. Burroughs

#16. People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Jay Sankey

#17. Be it unto you, even as you believe.
In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

Joyce Meyer

#18. Temptation comes next. At the Center, temptation was anything much more than eating and sleeping. Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you, Aunt Lydia used to say. Maybe

Margaret Atwood

#19. A magic effect is never completely finished.

Jay Sankey

#20. When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker of an empty building threatening to send the entire street of people to meet Jesus literally at any moment, and not just emotionally.

Rachel Higginson

#21. Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature.

Dan Pearce

#22. Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'

Jay Sankey

#23. I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

David Levithan

#24. I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

James Stewart