#magicians

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

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

— David Copperfield

#magicians #reveal #secrets #unspoken

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. ↗

— David Copperfield

#lose #magicians #opportunity #sense #wonder

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#always #associated #been #cinema #closely

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#magic #magicians #dreams

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. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #bunch #fun #great #magicians

They went around the room telling stories about how they'd gotten here. No two were exactly the same, but there was always a certain family resemblance. Somebody went looking for a lost ball in an alley, or a stray goat in a drainage ditch, or fallowed an inexplicable extra cable in the high school computer room which led to a server closet that had never been there before. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#family

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

— Karl Germain

#humor #illusionists #illusions #magic #magicians

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line. ↗

— David Blaine

#digital #down #great #houdini #i

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