Quotes About Sleight

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

And that the hand of fate has sleight and craft to match that of any magician.

The metaphor can be considered in some sense and under some circumstances to be a kind of sleight of hand by means of which meanings can be surreptitiously smuggled into an apparently innocent discourse.

Movies are like magic tricks.

How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. "You pick pockets." Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. "I can pick locks. Looking for this?" she asked, holding up his wallet. "Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.

It's the old shell game.

The essence of deception is distraction.

you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed

Magic is magic except to the magician.

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

You didn't want to know, so it was easy for her to fool you. She works left-handed.

A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She

I seem to remember there was some hocus-pocus with that one." "You mean hanky-panky!" shouted Ruth. "There was hanky panky.

Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'

Misdirect ALL the time.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Addie zipped open her computer case, found a USB cord, and tossed it through the back window so it landed on the seat next to him. "What's this for?" Kris asked, holding the cord. Darn. He found it too soon. "Thank you," she said. "I must have dropped it." "You just threw it in.

AMBIDEXTROUS, adj. Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.