Quotes About Misdirection

The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")

That's the trouble with witnesses. They always look at the wrong things.

It's nothing for you to worry about." "Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.' " "Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

Lydia: What the devil do you mean by creeping up on me? You're suppose to be in a brothel. Vere: I lied. I can't believe you fell for the old going-to-a-brothel ruse. You didn't even look out the window to make sure I'd gone away.

The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

There is no use of running when you are on the wrong way.

They really don't care about your answers if they ask you wrong questions.

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.

But the centaurs ran the wrong way, back toward

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB   When

These days, "science" is often nothing more than a cover story.

Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor. That's what we do, at any rate.

Nicotinic receptors are so named because they respond to nicotine, whether smoked or chewed, and they're spread throughout the brain. For all the problems it causes to our overall health, it's well established that nicotine can improve the rate of signal detection when a person has been misdirected—that is, nicotine creates a state of vigilance that allows one to become more detail oriented and less dependent on top-down expectations.

First is his ability to turn you from the way you should go and get you sidetracked. The second is the way he works to portray the cross as odious to you, and lastly, that he points you in the direction which leads to death.

It's like you don't realize what you have done. You always turn it around and make it look like you're the victim.

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.

Anyways, the secret is, always fix their attention *away* from where the slippery stuff's going on. That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.

At one point during the war, the Germans built fake airfields out of wood to draw British bombers away from their real targets and to fool the allies into thinking they were strategically more powerful than they actually were. However, the British weren't fooled - and took the mickey out of the Germans by dropping wooden bombs on the decoys!

Have you ever seen An American Werewolf in London ? Well, I'm not American. I'm not a werewolf, and this isn't London.