Steinmeyer Magician Quotes & Sayings

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you. — Jim Steinmeyer

I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as
sadness. — David Foster Wallace

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access. — Dee Dee Myers

Reunion reveals friendship potential that haven't yet been emerged in the past. — Toba Beta

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao. — Manny Pacquiao

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles. — Michel De Montaigne

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes ... — Emily Bronte

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion. — Jim Steinmeyer

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.Some of the promises,it's true,you make to young,before you really have an understanding of what they mean.But once you've made those first promises,other promises are called for.And the thing is you can't deny the new ones without betraying the old ones.The promises get bigger,there are more people to be hurt and disappointed if you don't live up to them.Then, at some point, your called upon to make a promise to a dying man. — Paul Castellano

I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working. — Tom Scharpling

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting. — Paul Simon

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go. — Jazmine Sullivan

The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one.
Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things.
Then you will find the now. The time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
Then in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself. — Robin Hobb

I think talent is like a water table under the earth - you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. — Natalie Goldberg

All the carriages filed out in single file but in a fashion that seemed to mean that they were competing against each other. The only sound that could be heard for a while was the pounding of the horses' hooves and the squeal and groan of the wheels against the road. Their hooves kicked up dirt, creating a storm of dust.
Once the miniature storm and the sound of galloping horses subsided, I could only see one last person. He glared up at me and mouthed, "Next time." Christopher dug his boots into Dawn's muscled flank. She reared up and broke into a gallop through the sparse forest, heading for escape. The last trace of them was the particles of floating dust, bright like floating fire. — Erica Sehyun Song

You are never too old to reinvent yourself. — Steve Harvey