Top 173 Magicians Quotes & Sayings

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.

Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis. For example, prior to the moving picture going into theatre, magicians were using the technique of images in motion as illusions in their shows. At that time the process was so new, an audience perceived it as magic. Also in the early stages of holograms magicians would use these images to baffle and mystify their fans. Hence, you always need to stay one step ahead of the technology game to "WOW" the audience.

I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

Most magicians are afraid of magic.

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

Because 'Gob' was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

Magicians guard an empty safe.

I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

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

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.

People have all these preconceived notions about magicians, like that they're lonely and bitter or they're socially awkward people. I don't know what magician hurt all these people, but I'm constantly having to overcome all these stereotypes. So, no. I'm sure there are just as many magicians who are lonely and bitter as there are comedians, lawyers, or any profession.

Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.