Rick Riordan Quotes

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.