The Last Magician Quotes

#1. That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

Gillian Flynn

#2. Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Anne Carson

#3. She brought the box back into the dining room and showed it to Emery. "Which ones go here?"
Amusement touched his eyes - that seemed to be their preferred emotion - and he took the pen and paper from her, finishing the last three symbols himself as he chewed.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#4. People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.

Dakota Fanning

#5. My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s and did a lot of radio work back then. When he came to my home town in early 1942, I sat in with the band. Ted liked me and offered me a job.

Louie Bellson

#6. Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book." Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. "And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

Lita Burke

#7. We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different ... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.

Miranda Hart

#8. The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Michael Parenti

#9. What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure?

William Shakespeare

#10. I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

Sheryl Swoopes

#11. Eyes don't breath. I know that much. But her eyes look breathless

Mary E. Pearson

#12. Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you're better than the rabbits we ate last night.

Barry Hannah

#13. At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#14. The Prince of the Air may rule the world, but last I checked the Great Magician still owns the place.

Mark Andrew Poe

#15. The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Janette Turner Hospital

#16. It was sad, tragic - and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

Zach Condon

#18. So you're Merlin the Magician? We studied you in school last year." I had no idea the guy was so wacky. "Oh no, Merlin was my bwother." Mermin smiled. "Made quite a name for himself in your world," he chuckled.

L.R.W. Lee

#19. Our real poems are already in us / and all we can do is dig. / We can work for years and never find them / or miss them when they stare us in the face.

Jonathan Galassi

#20. It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Seneca The Younger

#21. I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

Alton Brown

#22. I'm Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me.
Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not all the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them.

Rick Riordan