Quotes About Card Tricks

#1. Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

Sam Riley

#3. The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

Helen Fielding

#4. Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. Underneath their human guises, they looked like the typical faery - that is, no wings, scantily clad and kind of man-pretty like Orlando Bloom's Legolas ...

Kevin Hearne

#6. When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

Helen Gurley Brown

#7. You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly.
"You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake.

Orson Scott Card

#8. I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Harry Anderson

#9. The last thing I wanted to do was blow up another school.

Rick Riordan

#10. Every game has its Jacks,' she said, the sadness of it pulling down the elation of sudden understanding. 'The thing that acts as a wild card. It can't be counted on or predicted. A weapon, even. But he's in other places, too, isn't he? And do you know what else a Jack is, Puck? ... I do.

Ruth Frances Long

#11. We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

Michael Scott

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

Bill Hicks

#13. I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

Orson Scott Card

#14. Not that it was a crazy complicated skill, but operating an espresso machine during high traffic could be added to my repertoire along with card tricks and how to fire a Colt .45.
(Quote taken from ARC, subject to change)

Karina Halle

#15. When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Philippe Petit

#16. I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.

Suzi Quatro

#17. We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#18. Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary.

Martin Mayer