Parlor Trick Quotes

#1. Your existance hinders on no one but yourself. Only you can write your destiny. Fate is a mere parlor trick designed to coax you into believing otherwise. There is always a choice.

Chani Lynn Feener

#2. For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.

Jonathan Nolan

#3. Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.

Amy Koppelman

#4. If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.

Don Roff

#5. Being good has nothing to do with being a Boy !!. Better is the latter!

Nelson Jack

#6. You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Robert Charles Wilson

#7. Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Mary Wesley

#9. Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Jasper Fforde

#10. How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

Herbert Lockyer

#11. One looks at death, always moves toward it, but until the last denies its existence.

John A. Williams

#12. You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn

#13. Stroll around and look sexy, ask annoying questions, in general get on everyone's nerves. All those things that come naturally to you.

Janet Evanovich

#14. which is a venomous lie from start to finish

Truman Capote

#15. Maybe I was worrying for nothing. Maybe it had just been casual for him, and I wouldn't even have to tell him it couldn't happen again. After all, the man was a couple hundred years older than me and a former gigolo. I certainly hadn't robbed him of his virginity.

Jeaniene Frost

#16. She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission a long-running fantasy.

Ben Fountain

#17. That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.

Adrian Grenier