Magicpedia:Quote of the day

These quotes are featured on the Main Page based on the day of the month. Feel free to change them, especially if you see one that is broken.

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/1 - The usual trouble is that we don't bother to think long enough or hard enough." - Al Baker in "What Makes a Trick" The Sphinx (March 1941)"

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/2 - Astonishment is not an emotion that's created. It's an existing state that's revealed. - Paul Harris

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/3 - I practice because I enjoy it. When I force myself to do it, I accomplish nothing. - Jack Merlin

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/4 - Magicians are notoriously poor actors and my opinion is that it's because they are used to playing TO the audience rather than FOR it. - Ted Annemann (The Jinx no. 23, August 1936, page 142)

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/5 - The conjurer demonstrates that things are not always what they seem. Therein lies his philosophy. - Colonel Stodare

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/6 - My main goal is to fascinate the audience into thinking that they are dreaming, even if this is only for a few seconds. - Juan Tamariz

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/7 - Don't make unimportant things important -Dai Vernon

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/8 - Practicing is a lot like a bank. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. -Dai Vernon

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/9 - Excessive vanity proves the undoing of many experts. - S.W. Erdnase

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/10 - We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method. -Tommy Wonder

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/11 - A magician is the worst type of egocentric exhibitionist who despises those who can do things better than he; tolerates those who can do things as well; and simply adores those who are inferior. - Dr. Jacob Daley

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/12 - It's not the trick. It's the magician. -Harry Houdini

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/13 - Quite frankly, I believe that if you can do one good card control, one good palm and and one good double lift (in that order), you can do miracles for laymen. - Harry Lorayne in Reputation-Makers

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/14 - Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought. -David Devant

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/15 - A friend of mine picked up a deck of cards and said he was going to show me a faro trick. I took out a gun and shot him. - Charlie Miller in Pallbearers Review (Vol. 5, No.1, page 292)

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/16 - A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic, the principles, the fundamentals. -Harlan Tarbell

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/17 - Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off! - Carl Ballantine

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/18 - Some people call it Magic.. Other people just call it strange.. - Geoff Latta

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/19 - Tricks are only the crude residue from which the lifeblood of Magic has been drained. -S.H. Sharpe

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/20 - Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession: A conjuror promises to deceive and does. -Karl Germain

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/21 - I wouldn't deceive you for the world - Howard Thurston

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/22 - Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result. - Jean Hugard

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/23 - The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. - Paul LePaul

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/24 - The house of magic has many rooms. - Eugene Burger

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/25 - Magicians guard an empty safe. - Jim Steinmeyer

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/26 - The impossible I do immediately; Miracles take a little longer. - David Berglas

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/27 - The art of a magician is to create wonder. - Doug Henning

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/28 - Confusion isn't magic. - Dai Vernon

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/29 - My brain is the key that sets my mind free. - Harry Houdini

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/30 - Astonishment is our natural state of mind - Paul Harris

MagicPedia:Quote_of_the_day/31 - Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think. - Theodore Annemann

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