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The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.
One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!
If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.
In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.
I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.
The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.
In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.
Self-Checkout Line The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.
Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.
You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level.
I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.
Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
Ultimately, I don't care if people decide that what I'm doing is real or not...as long as they understand it isn't EASY.
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'
I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.
If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.
When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.
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