Compilation of Significant Quotes

Luke Skywalker, upon seeing Yoda lift his X-Wing Fighter out of the swamp using only his mind: "I don't believe it!"

Yoda: "And that is why you fail".









“Every conceit and motif of magic is a piece of the psychedelic experience; every single effect that we can think of can have a natural explanation from this phenomenon."

- Paul Vigil








“The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself.”

- William Blake








"Knowing is a wonderful thing ... so is not knowing."

- Max Maven








"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory."

- Alfred North Whitehead









"I'm now running through a list of famous people who have claimed that something is the final word, and I can't think of a single one who hasn't been proven wrong."

- Jeffrey Satinover









"Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance."

- Pablo Picasso









"I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right."

- Chick Corea









"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you."


- Jesus Christ









"Learn what you are, and be such."

- Pindar









"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

- Benjamin Franklin









"Leave the gun, take the cannolis."

- Pete Clemenza










"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again."

- Don Vito Corleone









"And don't take any chances ... two shots in the head a piece."

- Pete Clemenza









"Tricks are about objects ... Magic is about life."

- Max Maven










"Many men go fishing all of their lives without realizing that it is not fish they are after."

- Henry David Thoreau









"You and the Naboo form a symbiotic circle. What happens to one of you will affect the other. You must understand this."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi









"Meditate on this, I will."

- Master Yoda

"Modern Magicians inherited something profound, and have rendered it rather trivial."

- Max Maven







"Magic is the art of transformation, it reminds us that anything is possible, and that's an important message in today's world."

- Jeff McBride

"Worse things happen at sea, you know."
Frank Turner/Monty Python

"and he laughed insane and quipped 'KAHLIL GIBRAN' "
David Bowie

“The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.”
Doug Henning

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure;
in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."
Edgar Allan Poe

I never drink... wine.
- Dracula

Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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- The Mad Hatter




I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see.
- Alice

Where does he get all those wonderful toys ?
- the Joker