Quotes About Illusionist

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

The art of illusion is grace itself.

An operating system is the great facilitator; it is the great protector; it is the great illusionist.

The intellect is undeniably useful in its own field, but is a great cheat and illusionist outside of it whenever it tries to manipulate values.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

Why use a spell, where mummer's tricks will serve?

Magic is really performing special effects live.

Phantoms do not wear round hats.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without malice aforethought I had given them the best show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing of the Pilgrims! It was easily worth fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over.

I thought that you had changed me, but it was just a trick. You sawing back and forth above my chest till I was cut in half, dark magician.

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Phantasos: he takes illusory shapes of all inanimate things, earth, stones, rivers, trees.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

The hand doesn't need to be quicker than the eye if the eye is looking in the wrong place. Everything the magician does is about misleading the audience, everything: how he stands, where he looks, where he points and especially what he says. He will never be doing what he says he is doing, and if he tells you what he's about to do, he's lying.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another. You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.

A full-length suit of fantastic armor, made of the blue metal called nthium, stood in one corner. When the Illusionist addressed it the metal creature creaked into life and motion. "Hail, master!" boomed a hoarse voice from within the empty helm.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

Unlike most of us, who tend to be transparent, people rarely see through a psychopath," she continued. "He's masterful. People trust and believe him. Even like him. It's his great skill. Convincing people that his point of view is legitimate and right, often when all the evidence points in the other direction. Like Iago. It's a kind of magic.

Dreams are great magicians.

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.