Ricky Jay Quotes

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

Ricky Jay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

ThinkCardsFirstMagiciansMade

I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through.

John Gurdon

TimeAnimalsSayUpNormalLittle

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

Trent Dilfer

GoodFeetBadExecutionWoodMissed

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

Rosalynn Carter

WorryYouAdmitPollsAbout

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.

Romesh Gunesekera

FindPlaceAheadNowhereCabinLeft

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Russell M. Nelson

IntelligencePersonalDivineOur

Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.

Bonnie Hunt

PeopleMeSayingWalkingStopSay

The Palestinians have arrived at the conclusion that nothing can be achieved using terror.

Ariel Sharon

NothingConclusionTerrorArrived

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

William Kingdon Clifford

CharacterManSupportDoneOthers

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.

Phillip Noyce

FeelLikeAustralianKnewLonger

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

Thomas Heatherwick

ArtCityWorldAmericaMuseumWay

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

Thomas Dekker

MoneyDayTomorrowCareTrashWill

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

Mariella Frostrup

BooksAbsoluteDisgraceBBC

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Ricky Jay