Quotes about magician

Amit Kalantri -

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians he is just more magical in his presentation.

Debasish Mridha -

A good writer is a magician she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.

Gerard Way - Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite

Host: For those of you just tuning in, our guests tonight are the amazing Murder Magician, and his lovely minion, The Assistant...Assistant: Charmed, I'm sureHost: Who recently killed The Rumor. And you were awarded the Oppenheimer prize for villainy at last week's annual summit for dastardly deeds-- what are you going to do with all that money?Murder Magician: Well, I'm so glad you asked that-- because I spent all the money on this giant MURDERBOT, and I've been dying to show it off!Assistant:

Elizabeth Bear - Range of Ghosts

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Captain Harcourt-Bruce was not only dashing, handsome, and brave, he was also rather romantic. The reappearance of magic in England thrilled him immensely. He was a great reader of the more exciting sort of history - and his head was full of ancient battles in which the English were outnumbered by the French and doomed to die, when all at once would be heard the sound of strange, unearthly music, and upon a hilltop would appear the Raven King in his tall, black helmet with it's mantling of raven

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

For the rest of the night he sat by himself under the elm-tree. Until this moment it had never seemed to him that his magicianship set him apart from other men. But now he had glimpsed the wrong side of something. He had the eeriest feeling - as if the world were growing older around him, and the best part of existence - laughter, love and innocence - were slipping irrevocably into the past.

Lawren Leo - and Visualization

If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.

Lev Grossman - The Magician's Land

The world was fucking awful. It was a wretched, desolate place, a desert of meaninglessness, a heartless wasteland, where horrific things happened all the time for no reason and nothing good lasted for long.He'd been right about the world, but he was wrong about himself. The world was a desert, but he was a magician, and to be a magician was to be a secret spring - a moving oasis. He wasn't desolate, and he wasn't empty. He was full of emotion, full of feelings, bursting with them, and when it c

Misty Lee -

I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real.-Misty Lee

Dianna Hardy - The Spell of Summer

Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Book of Wisdom

You can only make magic if you act at the right time when the right conditions are in place

Robin Sacredfire -

Very few are brave enough to look at the portals to higher dimensions of conscience that open before their eyes, either they’re confronting them from one perspective or another. These portals represent amazing opportunities for the ones with the courage to see them and cross them. But only a very powerful person possesses the power to open one for others. And if you think that person is what it seems, you will neglect the magician hiding behind the illusion.

Avijeet Das -

Magic : when you create something from the materials around you to astound and make the audience say "Wow." Magic happens on mundane days. It happens when you least expect it. It brings a spark to our drab and monotonous days.

Sameh Elsayed -

When the Magician waves his magic wand to help you… rest assured he does it because you deserve it.

Colin Quinn - The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: "Yo, empty your pockets," and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone who can make himself disappear isn't safe, who is?

R.G. Manse - Screw Friendship

Rosy ferried the drinks back to the table, slid the Guinness his way. “You said you have a show. Is it a comedy?”“No, but you will laugh, I hope, after hearing my qualifications.” His eyes glittered. “I do magic, with a twist. The twist is, my clothes are the first thing to disappear.”Rosy gaped.“Yes. I do magic… naked. I not only have a big ego.” Marek wiggled his middle finger. “I have a big wand.

Jack Campbell - The Dragons of Dorcastle

The light changed slightly. Mari looked up and over at one wall. There was now a narrow, roughly door-shaped hole in it. Standing in the hole was Mage Alain. Mari stood up, realizing that her mouth was hanging open. That wall was solid. I felt it. There wasn't any opening. She watched as the Mage took two shaky steps into the cell, then paused, some of the strain leaving his face. She blinked, wondering what she had just seen, as the hole in the wall vanished as if it had never been. One moment

Marco Tempest -

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Reign of Terror Volume 2: Great Victorian Horror Stories

You will remember that Albertus Magnus, after describing minutely the process by which spirits may be invoked and commanded, adds emphatically that the process will instruct and avail only to the few - that a man must be born a magician! - that is, born with a peculiar physical temperament, as a man is born a poet. Rarely are men in whose constitution lurks this occult power of the highest order of intellect - usually in the intellect there is some twist, perversity, or disease.' ("The House And

Michael Scott - The Magician

We're going nowhere, " Joan said grimly. Traffic on the narrow street was at a complete standstill.A chill settled in Sophie's stomach: it was the appalling fear that her brother was going to die."Sidewalk," Nicholas said decisively. "Take it.""But the pedestrians—""Can get out of the way. Use your horn.

Anton Szandor LaVey - The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

Amit Kalantri -

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

Amit Kalantri -

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

Amit Kalantri -

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.

Amit Kalantri -

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

Amit Kalantri -

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

Amit Kalantri -

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

Amit Kalantri -

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

Maggie Stiefvater - The Dream Thieves

Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Persephone said."The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.

Amit Kalantri -

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Amit Kalantri -

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

Amit Kalantri -

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

Amit Kalantri -

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

Amit Kalantri -

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

Amit Kalantri -

A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.

Amit Kalantri -

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Amit Kalantri -

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Amit Kalantri -

The secret of good magic is another magic.

Amit Kalantri -

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

Amit Kalantri -

Magic is logic.

Amit Kalantri -

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

Amit Kalantri -

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

Amit Kalantri -

A bad magician never gets the good props.

Amit Kalantri -

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

Amit Kalantri -

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

Amit Kalantri -

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Amit Kalantri -

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Amit Kalantri -

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax.

Zeena Schreck -

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

Michelle Tea - Black Wave

Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.

Amanda Quick - The Girl Who Knew Too Much

No one gets away with committting murder on the premises.""No exceptions?" she asked.His smile was as cold as his eyes. "One exception.""You," she said."Me."She took a short, tight breath."But you didn't kill Gloria Maitland," she said."What makes you so sure I didn't murder her?""You're a magician. You would have done a better job of it.

Autumn Morning Star -

My mom said:‘Don’t put your finger in your brother’s ear! If you want to know how that quarter trick is done, go ask the magician.’ So I tugged on The Great Arturo's pant leg until he finally taught me how. That was my first magic trick! I was five years old.

Amit Kalantri -

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Lita Burke - Old Bony Blue Eyes

Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book.” Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. “And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

Robert Moore - Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

This is the man who thinks too much, who stands back from his life and never lives it. He is caught in a web of pros and cons about his decisions and lost in a labyrinth of reflective meanderings from which he cannot extricate himself. He is afraid to live, to ‘leap into battle.’ He can only sit on his rock and think. The years pass. He wonders where the time has gone. And he ends by regretting a life of sterility. He is a voyeur, an armchair adventurer. In the world of academia, he is a hairspl

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

T.S. Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

He is quiet and small, he is blackFrom his ears to the tip of his tail;He can creep through the tiniest crackHe can walk on the narrowest rail.He can pick any card from a pack,He is equally cunning with dice;He is always deceiving you into believingThat he's only hunting for mice.He can play any trick with a corkOr a spoon and a bit of fish-paste;If you look for a knife or a forkAnd you think it is merely misplaced -You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn!But you'll find it next week ly

Garon Whited - Nightlord: Shadows

put my hand in front of her finger, thinking, 'She’s a magician; it might be loaded.

Garon Whited - Nightlord: Shadows

[I] put my hand in front of her finger, thinking, 'She’s a magician; it might be loaded.

Patti Smith - Just Kids

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.

Amit Kalantri -

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Tanith Lee - Death's Master

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Avijeet Das -

I don't want any more magic in my life, your love is enough for me!

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

Amit Kalantri -

General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".

Patti Smith - Just Kids

Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Washington Irving - Irving's Sketch Book

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Genesis Quihuis -

People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.

Orville Wright -

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

R.S. Mollison-Read - Magician's Mastery

Shaking his head, Tobin turned back to his picnic spread, and there, sitting on the end of the checkered cloth, and helping himself to one of Tobin’s cupcakes, was a tiny brown squirrel.Tobin blinked in surprise.The squirrel was exceptionally bold. He made absolutely no move to leave, despite Tobin’s frown, and merely stuffed more pink icing into his mouth with one tiny paw. His ears were tufted into small points, and he tilted his head to the side as he surveyed Tobin with bright, inquisitive e

R.S. Mollison-Read - Magician's Mastery

Maven Gustav, what is that awful noise?” Tobin bellowed, holding his hands over his ears.“Why, it’s my very own creation!” Gustav replied, beaming with pride. “I made this spell to be activated in the event of a castle emergency. In all my tests, it never failed to wake everyone,” he noted, proudly.“Yes, Gustav. It’s fantastically loud. Well done. But what is the emergency, and how do we turn the alarm off?

R.S. Mollison-Read - Magician's Mirrors

The blue foam spread quickly, and had almost entirely enveloped the room, moving rapidly towards the last clear door, when suddenly the door burst open, and Simon, looking flushed, and panting heavily, stepped into the room.“Nooooooo!” shrieked Maven Ellie; a shocking sound out of the usually calm and cheerful magician. But it was too late.The foam, already covering most of the room, seemed to stiffen for a moment, before a molten red glow began to take over. The foam hissed, as though in anger,

Clifton Hill - Veil of a Warrior

Walking alongside his apprentice’s horse, Sethil Longmere, magus of the Third Circle, Magi Master of Dormir’s army, and a man who had seen more years than most men could count, did his best to keep his apprentice Rousche from falling off his gelding. The dun horse had a sure foot and a good temper, but it seemed unlikely the animal was used to a grown man lying face first in its mane, legs sprawled behind, dangling with each step.