“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed.”
David K Shipler
“I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.”
Chuck Close
“Seeing these stars is like watching a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. You know it happened but you don't know how it happened.”
Tod Lauer
“A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.”
Marcel Marceau
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”
Charles Dickens
“As a lover, I'm about as impressive as a magician on the radio.”
Scott Roeben
“There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.”
Charles Fort
