Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Magicians - Page 2

Whatever your condition, you can be happy if you have the right attitude.

Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

All done by kindness.

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.

Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other's power.

Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand be inspected, whether dream or vision be seen, whether marking of entrails or mad inspiration be consulted, there must be a Celestial Figure first erected, by the means of whole indications, together with the conjectures of Signs and Similitudes, they endeavour to find out the truth of what is desired.

Don`t make unimportant things important

The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.

Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.

If there is a single secret, then it can be simply put. Think big, create, plan, rethink (even bigger) then prepare, practice and perform.

Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.

Ultimately, I don't care if people decide that what I'm doing is real or not...as long as they understand it isn't EASY.

Grunt, foam at the mouth, and otherwise get psychic.

Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

Large action arrest small action.

Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.

Magic clubs have as much to do with magic as country clubs have with being in the country.

A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand book opens doors to the past where we have an opportunity to explore the deeper meanings, myths and symbols of our art.

Rummy is played by more people in more ways than any other game.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

Self-Checkout Line ? The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes. But those things which are for the profit of men -- for the turning away of evil events, for the destroying of sorceries, for the curing of diseases, for the exterminating of phantasms, for the preserving of life, honor, or fortune -- may be done without offense to God or injury to religion, because they are, as profitable, so necessary.

Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'

It is requisite that we should here say something of Magick, which is so linked to Astrology, as being her near Kinswoman, that whoever professes Magick without Astrology, does nothing, but is altogether out of the way.

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

At the finish of the effect look at the audience: if they have gone white in the face, froth at the mouth with excitement,shake at the knees or get down on the floor and salaam you-it is quite a fair trick.

A magic effect is never completely finished.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their value from the matter they are made of, and the excellent skill of their maker: Pots of common clay must not contend with China-dishes, nor pewter utensils vye dignity with those of silver.... Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity.

Most magicians are afraid of magic.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.

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.

The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?

You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.

A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

The house of magic has many rooms.

Effect should come first. Method second.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.

There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.