#magician

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. ↗

— Karl Germain

#humor #illusionists #illusions #magic #magicians

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic. ↗

— Andy Dick

#before #christian #comic #go #handicapped

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers. ↗

— Lance Burton

#also #always #books #came #chavez

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

#away #both #common #doing #draw

Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic. ↗

— Matt Posner

#magicians #age

Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#nature

Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?" "No, just the way we do,"Merlin replied.With a flick of his finger he lit the soggy heap of kindling that Arthur had gathered (...) A blaze leapt up on the instant. Merlin then opened his hands and produced some food out of thin air. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#magic #magicians #merlin #food

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#magic #magician #priest #religion #religion

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#brought #drink #had #horrible #i

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#how #like #lot #magic #magician