The Magician Quotes

#1. THE MAGICIAN
They asked St. Germain's manservant if his master was truly a thousand years old, as it was rumored he had claimed.

'How would I know?" the man replied. "I have only been in the master's employ for three hundred years.

Neil Gaiman

#2. (C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!

Garth Stein

#3. The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says 'look here, look here,' the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that's exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.

Ali Sheikh

#5. The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

Peter S. Beagle

#6. The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world - oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.

Peter S. Beagle

#7. Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?'
- The Magician's Nephew

C.S. Lewis

#8. We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.
It fooled Rincewind.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Stross

#10. But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

Michael Scott

#11. A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Mark Twain

#12. 'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Trudi Canavan

#13. After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret lover stashed away. Or a very loud pet. That time with the peacock, for instance. Noisy birds, peacocks.

Yoon Ha Lee

#14. Light is the magician of the cosmos.

Bruce Watson

#15. Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ...

Hugh Prather

#16. 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

#17. That song is called The Three Heroes (although the word hero is used lightly in the case of the Magician) and tells the tale of the three characters of legend that are etched upon my rings: the Warrior, the Blacksmith, and the Magician.

Justin Cartwright

#18. Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Ben Hecht

#19. LIFE IS A MAGIC, GOD IS THE MAGICIAN

Hansrajvir

#20. The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ... at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

Louis Menand

#21. And history felt like a conjuring trick. All of this had been in plain view the entire time, but only now did the magician allow Joey to see it all.

Jay Bell

#22. The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

Peter S. Beagle

#23. It had not occurred to anybody in the crowd - that simple trick of inquiring about somebody who wasn't ten thousand miles away. The magician was hit hard; it was an emergency that had never happened in his experience before, and it corked him; he didn't know how to meet it.

Mark Twain

#24. I intended only lilies. That was my intention: a bouquet of lilies. - The Magician

Kate DiCamillo

#25. But that is impossible," said Peter.
"Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic.

Kate DiCamillo

#26. That night, Kaz took Saskia's red ribbon from beneath his pillow. He rolled it into a neat spiral and clutched it in his palm. He lay in bed and tried to pray, but all he could think about was the magician's coin: there and then gone.

Leigh Bardugo

#27. According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

Franz Bardon

#28. 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

#29. The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.

Jack Vance

#30. The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

Francis Bacon

#31. Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Persephone said.
"The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter. "I cast off two together at every other line," said the magician, "but for some reason it seems to end too sharply. Like an onion. It is the turning of the heel that does one, every time.

T.H. White

#33. I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

Ashton Kutcher

#34. I object to that remark very strongly!
- The Magician's Nephew

C.S. Lewis

#35. Adam had never been powerful in his life.

Being the magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't. The magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The magician can make anything magical.

Now, are you the magician? Or aren't you?

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. The Magician makes the visible, invisible.
The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.
The Artist stands in between, indivisible.

Natasha Tsakos

#37. The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

Aleister Crowley

#38. I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment.

Michael Carbonaro

#39. The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Ben Okri

#40. Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.

Jostein Gaarder

#41. Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

David Lynch

#42. And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

C.S. Lewis

#43. Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

Barbara De Angelis

#44. It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

C.S. Lewis

#45. I am the magician's girl who does not flinch.

Sylvia Plath

#46. At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)

Mick McCarthy

#47. The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

Alexander Herrmann

#48. Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!

Patricia C. Wrede

#49. When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.

Rebecca Makkai

#50. Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind.

Emily Dickinson

#51. After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End, Mairelon the Magician 1

Patricia C. Wrede

#52. My mom said:'Don't put your finger in your brother's ear! If you want to know how that quarter trick is done, go ask the magician.' So I tugged on The Great Arturo's pant leg until he finally taught me how. That was my first magic trick! I was five years old.

Autumn Morning Star

#53. What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and without consequence? *

Jeff VanderMeer

#54. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#55. The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

Alan Moore

#56. No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

Lon Milo DuQuette

#57. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret ... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Christopher Priest

#58. Where is the magic? In nature! Where is the magician? In nature? Who is the magician? The nature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

Alexander Herrmann

#60. I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

Roberto Benigni

#61. Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?

Andrea Gibson

#62. The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.

Peter S. Beagle

#63. I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.

Kate DiCamillo

#64. The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.

Franz Bardon

#65. You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

T.H. White

#66. Magic is magic except to the magician.

Don Bradley

#67. I've got a system." He reached under a stack on the left corner of his desk, pulled out a file.
"It's like the magician's tablecloth trick," she commented. "Nicely done."
"Want to see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?

Nora Roberts

#68. Be careful of the magician that tricks you into believing that what you do with food has no consequences.

Karen R. Koenig

#69. Together, but Billy Lee was the magician. I barely qualified

Carolyn Brown

#70. Mass was like grand opera, a magic show with the most expensive props in town. And faith, a sleight of hand trick, in which one was both the magician and the audience; the deceiver and the deceived. Still, who could resist a good magic trick?

Kathleen Tessaro

#71. Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.

Christopher Priest

#72. When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

Derren Brown

#73. When the Magician waves his magic wand to help you ... rest assured he does it because you deserve it.

Sameh Elsayed

#74. In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Conrad Veidt

#75. Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#76. Hillary Clinton ripped FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday. She said she can't understand how FBI documents could vanish and then mysteriously reappear. She has to say that or she'd be thrown out of the Magician's Society.

Argus Hamilton

#77. The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same.

Gwyn Alfred Williams

#78. I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

Michael Carbonaro

#79. When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all ... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

Michael Carbonaro

#80. There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Sidney Sheldon

#81. Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic.

Franz Hartmann

#82. Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?

Robert Anton Wilson

#83. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.
- Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

C.S. Lewis

#84. She said, "I will go no farther."
"There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

Peter S. Beagle

#85. All magic is about transformation ... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

Eugene Burger

#86. The big spells," Mg. Thane answered, his expression plain but his bright eyes smiling. Did he know how much those eyes gave away?

Charlie N. Holmberg

#87. Ceony shut the book and glanced to her new teacher. "It's . . . amazing, but I admit it's also superficial. Aesthetic."
"But entertaining," he combated. "Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it's something everyone wants.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#88. He had grown fond of the old proprietress, Mrs. Matalov, who had been a magician's assistant back in the 1930s, and who now, even at ninety-three, had the stoic dignity of a beautiful woman who was about to be cut in half.

Dan Chaon

#89. Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Tennessee Williams

#90. I get lost in the magical beauty that is all around me. My mind is an enchanted magician who mysteriously creates all of that magnificent beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#91. Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Gore Vidal

#92. Perhaps," Mg. Katter cut in, "she's finally gotten smart. In and out, job done."
Mg. Hughes said, "No. Not her." He paused. "She knows Emery is critical to the syndicate, they all do. He's personally invested in it. That, and she's always kept a . . . keen . . . interest in him.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#93. Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Amit Kalantri

#94. The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.

Kate Betts

#95. Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

Ricky Jay

#96. When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

Kailash Kher

#97. 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

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#99. The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Jim Steinmeyer

#100. Then forgive yourself!" she shouted, pushing herself back up. She pressed her palm against the wall for support. "Everyone has a dark side! But it's their choice whether or not they cultivate it. Don't you understand? Lira's exploited hers, but not you. Not you, Emery Thane.

Charlie N. Holmberg