Tricks famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes
-- Alyson Noel -
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
-- Angela Carter -
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
-- Anne Sexton -
The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.
-- Attica Locke -
Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
-- Belle Boyd -
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
-- Billy Wilder -
Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?
-- Bo Derek -
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
-- Bob Dylan -
I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.
-- Brittany Murphy -
The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.
-- Carl Ballantine -
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
-- Carson McCullers -
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.
-- Channing Tatum -
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
-- Charles Dickens -
People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.
-- Christopher Nolan -
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
-- Criss Angel -
I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.
-- Cristiano Ronaldo -
I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
-- Dan Castellaneta -
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
-- Daniel Dennett -
My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
-- David Copperfield -
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
-- David Levithan -
The trick is to begin looking for the grace hidden beneath the struggle.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.
-- Derren Brown -
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.
-- Ed Seykota -
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
-- Edmund Wilson -
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
-- Eric Weiner -
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
-- Evan Davis -
... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.
-- Evelyn Keyes -
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
-- Garry Disher -
An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.
-- George Polya -
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.
-- Gil Kalai -
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
-- Guru Nanak -
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
-- Harlan Ellison -
An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
-- Harry Houdini -
Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.
-- Harry Lorayne -
You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.
-- Heather Morris -
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
-- Helen Mirren -
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
-- Humphrey Carpenter -
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.
-- Jacob August Riis -
The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
-- James A. Baldwin -
I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
-- Jane Siberry -
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
-- Jean Anouilh -
No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride
-- Jenkin Lloyd Jones -
Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.
-- Jeph Jacques -
It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures
-- Jerry Stiller -
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.
-- Joan D. Chittister -
What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
-- John Christopher -
If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick,
-- John Cleese -
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.
-- Josh Radnor -
I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.
-- Judy Sheindlin -
I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.
-- Kieran Culkin -
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
-- King James I -
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
-- Lady Gregory -
The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.
-- Laurence Gonzales -
If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
-- Leo Burnett -
Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
-- Lipman Bers -
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.
-- Marco Tempest -
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
-- Mark Millar -
Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.
-- Mark R. Woodward -
Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.
-- Martin Gardner -
The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.
-- Michael Cera -
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
-- Michel Onfray -
The trick to any profession is making it look easy.
-- Morgan Freeman -
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
-- Nicholas Meyer -
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
-- Pablo Picasso -
The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.
-- Paul LePaul -
I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
-- Paula Deen -
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
-- Pharrell Williams -
Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
-- Philippa Gregory -
Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.
-- Pia Zadora -
The trick is: you have to feel good for no reason.
-- Richard Bandler -
When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.
-- Richard Beymer -
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence
-- Richard Wilbur -
Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.
-- Rick Yancey -
Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.
-- Rob Dyrdek -
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
-- Robert Breault -
A miler's kick does the trick...A miler's kick does the trick...
-- Rod Dixon -
I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.
-- Sam Walton -
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
-- Seth Grahame-Smith
