Browsing Topic Best Magic Tricks Quotes

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

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.

I always feel that there’s no violence in a movie – it’s not real, it’s a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

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.

Hopefully we’ll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I’d love to see us get to a point where you can go to theaters and see movies unrated and that people know its not real violence. It’s all pretend. It’s all fake. It’s just acting. It’s just magic tricks.

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.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

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.

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

Movies are like magic tricks.

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.

Making films is sort of like you’re pulling off a magic trick. It’s sort of like an illusion. It’s not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you’re wearing to the make-up, to the light.

I can’t say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I’d start giving little performances.

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.

Disappearing act? That’s a magic trick, isn’t it? I like magic tricks!

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don’t understand that it’s ultimately still work.

My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there’s some magic trick. There’s no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

You don’t get into magic. Magic gets into you.

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine – so a magician was born!

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

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

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

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.

Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.