Good Tricks Quotes

#1. Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

Daniel Dennett

#2. I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.

Robert Englund

#3. It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

Adam Ant

#4. A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it ... but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.

Keith Barry

#5. A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

Sharon Stone

#6. Good SEO work only gets better over time. It's only search engine tricks that need to keep changing when the ranking algorithms change.

Jill Whalen

#7. He was a good con man, but not a great con man. He wasn't ruthless enough. He had all the tricks, all the techniques, the facility for it. That part if you'll excuse the expression, was in his blood. But he never really had the heart for it.

Jeffrey Ford

#8. We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good.

Luka Sulic

#9. Be frank with me and we may do some good. Play tricks with me, and I'll crush you.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish
trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.

Kelli Swofford Nielsen

#11. They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.

Donna Tartt

#12. As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.

Akiva Goldsman

#13. It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.

N.K. Jemisin

#14. The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

Daniel Dennett

#15. Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Douglas MacArthur

#16. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.

Caroline Blackwood

#17. I know how to dress for my body to give off illusions, and I like to teach women about it - it's important for women to have that power and that arsenal ... tricks that make you feel good when you walk outside.

Tyra Banks

#18. Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees.

Katherine Applegate

#19. Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

Mona Simpson

#20. There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

Kevin Sampsell

#21. I got very good on the telephone tricks too. Like calling up a company and find out that the plant was going to building a new addition and getting hold of the engineering office and getting the secretary to give me the direct extension.

Robert Greene

#22. A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#23. There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming ... home.

Holly Black

#24. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.

Soheir Khashoggi

#25. Watch 'Dog with a Blog' to get a good laugh, to see me, of course, and to see an awesome, awesome talking dog who is the cleverest, most awesome dude in the world. He's really, really adorable and cute, and it's really cool seeing what kind of tricks he has up his sleeve.

Blake Michael

#26. Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.

Shams Tabrizi

#27. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.

Carrie Vaughn

#28. When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.

Jeffrey Deitch

#29. Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

Jacob August Riis

#30. Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.

Rowan Atkinson

#31. He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Charles Baudelaire

#32. I started skiing when I was five years old. I grew up on a little 300-foot mountain called Perfect North Slopes. It wasn't a great destination in the world, but it was a good enough place to learn how to do tricks.

Nick Goepper

#33. One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he'd learned, was not to overuse the Look.

Peter Clines

#34. When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

Mark Billingham

#35. Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.

Michael Carbonaro

#36. The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.

Archilochos

#37. It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

Jennifer Carpenter

#38. If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.

Xenophon

#39. In a way, I'm not at all jaded, and still enjoy so much what I do. It's a good trick.

Jill Sobule

#40. As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness
a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.

Margaret Atwood

#41. A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

Dean Bakopoulos

#42. If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

Justin Cronin