Quotes on Magic Tricks

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.