Ricky Jay Quotes

Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

Ricky Jay

• Secret
• Annoying
• Stealing
• Cards
• Nuclear
• Magician

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • First
  • Order
  • Trauma

• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Chinese
  • Alive
  • Tibetans

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Health
  • Organization
  • Gun

• If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • True
  • Religion

• I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Character
  • Sleep
  • Drink

• As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Know

• The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Death
  • Face

• I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally, the verdict of 1848 is being over-turned. Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Constitution - to 'insure domestic tranquility' and ‘make us a more perfect union’? Or have we imperiled our union?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Perfect
  • Moving
  • Goals

• The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Know
  • Mathematician

• So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Serious

• I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Wife
  • Chicago

• I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel.

  

  Danny Danon
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• I'm strong enough to guard the big guys and have enough heart to lock them down.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Heart
  • Strong

• Everything I do has an underlying political question.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Political
  • Question

• You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • True
  • Dream

• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Choices

• I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt is not heritable. It's good to know about them, but you are not responsible for them. You don't have to apologize for them. It's a process of knowing, and the more you know, the richer the sense of yourself. The firmer your foundation as a human being is

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Trying
  • Atmosphere
  • Guilt

• Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Secret
  • Annoying
  • Stealing