Quotes About Magic And Magicians

#1. In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.

Susanna Clarke

#2. Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

Amit Kalantri

#3. A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: "Yo, empty your pockets," and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone who can make himself disappear isn't safe, who is?

Colin Quinn

#4. Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?"
"No, just the way we do,"Merlin replied.With a flick of his finger he lit the soggy heap of kindling that Arthur had gathered ( ... ) A blaze leapt up on the instant. Merlin then opened his hands and produced some food out of thin air.

Deepak Chopra

#5. It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.

Susanna Clarke

#6. I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real.

-Misty Lee

Misty Lee

#7. I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Francis Ford Coppola

#8. Wizard's work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.

Lita Burke

#9. Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

Zeena Schreck

#10. If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

Amit Kalantri

#11. Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

Amit Kalantri

#12. A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

Amit Kalantri

#13. Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

Ricky Jay

#14. Dance Is Magic, Dancers Are Magicians, Music Is The Magic Portion Mixed In The Heart 'The Magic Pot'...Now Go Do Some Magic Today And Live A Magical Life

Okwudili Iloka

#15. Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

Jon Turteltaub

#16. I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Brian Selznick

#17. The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Ricky Jay

#18. Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Adam Gopnik

#19. Thank God! he said, and kissed her.
Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache.

Patricia C. Wrede

#20. What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Amit Kalantri

#21. Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

Amit Kalantri

#22. Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

Jerry Andrus

#23. But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

Susanna Clarke

#24. If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

Deb Caletti

#25. Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#26. Unfortunately most magicians are immune to their own magic. We see behind the veil, we live inside the nuts and bolts, the element of surprise is lost on us. But we can help each other.

Menna Van Praag

#27. I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Lance Burton

#28. Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?" "That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins." "Magic penguins?" "Don't ask.

Rick Riordan

#29. A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

Amit Kalantri

#30. Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

Jamy Ian Swiss

#31. Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician ... and we were all born to be magicians.

Dianna Hardy

#32. General belief is "There is no real magic, only tricks" but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".

Amit Kalantri

#33. I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Susanna Clarke

#34. Her people, the Half-Lights, were the by-blows of the full-blood Magicians and humans. As such, they were outcasts from both kingdoms. Their magic was too unpredictable for the magicians, and too magic - period - for the humans.

Susan Scott

#35. Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.

Ricky Jay

#36. Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

Karl Germain

#37. Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper, sailors, politicians, but not magicians. Our time is past.

Susanna Clarke

#38. An Enforcer's style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.

Lita Burke

#39. The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It's like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.

Naomi Novik

#40. Perhaps in the stillness of a summer night they will feel compelled to walk barefoot down a moonlit country
road and search for the magic that connects all beings in the Circle of Life.

Autumn Morning Star

#41. I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.

Ricky Jay

#42. Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.

Susanna Clarke