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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he’s singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author’s sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there’s no happily ever after. You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That’s the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It’s certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It’s the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don’t want to do this, but we’re doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) Now a conjuror is I think a very pleasant fellow to have among us, if we know that he is a conjuror; - but a conjuror who is believed to do his tricks without sleight of hand is a dangerous man  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes) I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins  (Sleight Of Hand Quotes)