Top 59 Quotes About Magic Tricks

#1. The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

Penn Jillette

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#2. I believe, or sense, that the universe has not been constructed from a purely mechanical, logical, rational point of view, but there is a magic afoot in the universe, that God can be looked at as a kind of a magician in which we get to perform tricks ourselves, without knowing that we're doing so.

Fred Alan Wolf

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#3. The unknown is sexier that the revealed. All magic tricks are a disappointment once you learn how they're done.

L. H. Cosway

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#4. I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

Ray Bradbury

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#5. Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Thomas Bangalter

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#6. Close analysis of 'miracles' have never led to any proof for a supernatural explanation, and, in fact, many have proven to be cheap magic tricks, hallucinations or primitive misunderstandings of natural phenomena.

Armin Navabi

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#7. Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

Derren Brown

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#8. It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

David Copperfield

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#9. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Amit Kalantri

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#10. If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

Colin Morgan

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#11. 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

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#12. Magic is a shortened term derived from "Magiano's tricks," coined from the exploits of the famous young charlatan, Magiano, who was never captured by the Inquisition. - Essays, by Raffaele Laurent Bessette Adelina

Marie Lu

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#13. I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.

Madchen Amick

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#14. One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

Penn Jillette

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#15. I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

Sterling Beaumon

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#16. I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

Nicolas Cage

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#17. I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

Steve Martin

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#18. The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear.
"How to saw people in half?"
"That too."
"Nice.

Catherine Fisher

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#19. Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.

Michael Carbonaro

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#20. I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.

Johnny Carson

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#21. The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

Paul LePaul

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#22. The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks.

Solange Nicole

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#23. My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

Fernando Alonso

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#24. Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Michel Onfray

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#25. The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Marco Tempest

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#26. If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature - this and this alone constitutes living to live.

Herbert M. Shelton

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#27. 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

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#28. Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Drummond Money-Coutts

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#29. Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.

Dick Christian

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#30. A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

Harlan Tarbell

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#31. When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

Steve Martin

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#32. I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.

Steve Martin

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

-Misty Lee

Misty Lee

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#34. Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.

Carl Ballantine

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#35. We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Lance Burton

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#36. Loomis waved a hand and a squiggly trail of smoke followed like a magic wand. Loomis had a captivating subtlety and charm and was capable of more tricks than a sage in Pharaoh's court.

Luke Taylor

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#37. A poor way to repay them - gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks.

J.K. Rowling

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#38. I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

Charles Bukowski

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#39. A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it ... but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.

Keith Barry

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#40. Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

Harry Lorayne

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#41. The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.

Eugene Burger

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#42. If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

Larry Niven

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#43. Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Lene Hau

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#44. I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

J.K. Rowling

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#45. 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

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#46. When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.

Lily Tomlin

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#47. Cade grabbed my hand and pressed it against his chest. You are right here forever, and no magic tricks or sorcery can pry you from my heart.

Tess Oliver

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#48. I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

Steve Truglia

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#49. Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Lorrie Moore

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#50. One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

Lilla Crawford

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#51. My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Michael Jackson

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#52. The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Bernard Cornwell

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#53. He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool.

Gillian Flynn

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#54. I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

Kevin Mitnick

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#55. The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter

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#56. When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J.J. Abrams

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#57. rational recreation" genre. Now, however, magic tricks featuring sympathetic ink began to be added, and they

Kristie Macrakis

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#58. I don't know how to make magic. For most songwriter's that has only happened once or twice, and I don't know how to re-create that. I know that there are some tricks and tools, but the magic is the amazing part.

Tyler Hilton

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#59. Movies are like magic tricks.

Jeff Bridges

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