Prestidigitation Quotes & Sayings

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic. — Catherynne M Valente

Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill. — Michael Ian Black

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. — John Keats

Combat worry, such as keeping a prayer journal and rereading it when I'm under attack. — Lynn Austin

If the sky, by sinister alchemy, or diabolical prestidigitation, transformed into a mirror of the mother sea, the primordial cradle; and if leviathans swam that breadth and hovered, softly undulating over the teaming habitations of the globe, feasting; what should you wear? — Laird Barron

Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper ... It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all?
In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed. — Alison Bechdel

Eventually, they give up, and the unexplained meteorological phenomenon is simply called a "dubstep storm," because - in the words of one researcher - "It had one hell of a drop. — Randall Munroe

Time and feeding had expanded that once romantic form; the black silk waistcoat had become more and more developed; inch by inch had the gold watch-chain beneath it disappeared from within the range of Tupman's vision; and gradually had the capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat: but the soul of Tupman had known no change - admiration of the fair sex was still its ruling passion. — Charles Dickens

Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box. — Frederick Douglass

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience. — Marianne Williamson

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on? — Lesley Ann Warren

Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that. — Les Lynam

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door. — James Sinegal

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two. — Thomas Adams

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream — Sylvia Plath

Kyle, open up. What kind of weirdo locks his bedroom door anyway?"
"The kind that has jerks staying over who steal girlfriends."
I pressed my fingers into my eyes and took a deep breath as the pain in back and legs got a little worse. "She wasn't your girlfriend."
"Irrelevant!" he yelled. — Shelly Crane