Quotes About Misdirection

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere.

Me molesta cuando las historias se resuelven como un truco de magia

You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.

I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly naff ideas in people's minds but is pleasantly conversation-stopping.

Yueh ventured a thin smile, thinking: I believe it has worked. Now, she'll think anything unusual in my manner is due to embarrassment. She'll not look for deeper reasons when she believes she already knows the answer.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.

Hate is only love that has missed its way.

Hate is only love that missed its way.

In fact, it seemed to me that every single item on the news – concerning economic doom and political hypocrisy and social breakdown – was not "news" at all. What I could hear was just a series of utterly transparent ploys to frighten and alarm the listeners – and frighten them, moreover, about the wrong things. The

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

Can I ask you something personal?" Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

had been like wandering into the wrong carnival sideshow, the kind that left one feeling sick and slightly soiled.

Sorry, but looks like I'm dead. *Grin*

A brigand can also be portrayed publicly as a legend and those who don't understand their game plan easily extend the supporting hand to them.

When a person is on the wrong track, it may look to the people that many hands are in support of him from behind but the fact could be they are just pushing him from the back to make him fall from the deck.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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

Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.

Misdirect ALL the time.

That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.