Top 94 Quotes About Bluff
#1. Walter Junior, were in the toolshed outside their home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, when a Mark 6 atomic bomb landed in the yard. Mrs.
Eric Schlosser
#2. Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.
Michael Cunningham
#4. Guard glowered at me in silence, of course. It was an act. No one could resist my bluff and manly charisma. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be friends with me. I just knew it.
Jim Butcher
#5. Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.
Jim Fowler
#6. Sergeant Colon was lost in admiration. He'd seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he'd never seen anyone bluff with no cards.
Terry Pratchett
#7. Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
Charles Dickens
#8. It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
Jonathan Lethem
#9. Good to know in times of war you can't bluff for shit.
Samantha Young
#10. The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce
#11. You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.
Sam Farha
#12. She's a poker player's wet dream. Sorry, sweetheart, you can't bluff for anything.
Katherine McIntyre
#13. It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
Wilfred Burchett
#14. I watched his face put on that mask of bluff, goodnatured tolerance which is the mask of corruption in this particular time (for
Doris Lessing
#15. Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.
Eoin Colfer
#16. Arden Shore Camp in Lake Bluff, Illinois, a camp for poor children and those at risk for delinquency.
Joan Wehlen Morrison
#17. And what if there are no damsels in distress?
What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?
Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down,
whether or not you ever show up?
Ani DiFranco
#18. Humans talk about 'fight-flight.' Isn't binary, quaternary: fight, flight, bluff, submit. Every human is different pattern for different conditions, but all humans have all four to an extent ... All human interaction works on those four responses ...
John Ringo
#19. I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.
David Low
#20. The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?
Marcus Garvey
#21. Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.
Torii Hunter
#22. I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.
Harriet Evans
#23. Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.
Carl Sagan
#24. Instead of being a single, downright, bluff piece of work of which no man need feel ashamed, our commonest deeds are set about with a fluttering and flickering of wings, a rising and falling of lights.
Virginia Woolf
#25. At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty.
Rex Stout
#26. The bluff on which Natchez sat was huge, and the road zigged and zagged and curled and twisted and dropped - like something Dr. Seuss might have imagined in a book titled The Cat in the Hat Drinks Blood.
Faith Hunter
#27. Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.
Chris Moneymaker
#28. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them ... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden
#29. Then a very large komodo breaks into view, spooked by our trespass, and scrambles up the vertical face of the bluff, like an alligator scaling a four-story building.
David Quammen
#30. Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.
Donald Trump
#32. That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call.
Mark Lawrence
#33. The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.
Dan Scanlon
#34. Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.
(Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004)
George W. Bush
#35. Crushes weren't made of quick and dirty; they were made of romance and fantasies. What would she do if he called her bluff?
Amanda Usen
#37. I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
Gail Simmons
#38. You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.
Chad Ochocinco
#39. A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
Henry A. Kissinger
#40. Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#41. I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.
Nick Harkaway
#42. Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?
Joe Simpson
#43. You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.
Joe Mantegna
#44. Not too many players try to bluff me. If there's going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I'm going to be the one doing to it.
Johnny Chan
#45. I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir - " Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely " - and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.
David Weber
#47. You can't bluff your way past everyone."
"You mean about filleting that guy?" Sera returned.
"Who said I was bluffing?
Erin Kellison
#48. I have faced death this night, and I have called his bluff.
Lucien LaCroix
#49. Meg looked at me with something resembling respect. "What did you do to them?"
"Nothing," I said. "Half the trick to being a god is knowing how to bluff.
Rick Riordan
#50. shoulders touching in a way that's only mostly platonic. It's inevitable, she supposes, that God would call her bluff.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#51. When you bluff, someone may call you on it.
Mike Brady
#52. If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called.
Phil Hellmuth
#53. When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
David Seabury
#55. Ahead of them, on top of a bluff, the thin beam from a lighthouse pointed a sweeping finger into the harbor.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#56. I called your bluff,' he said.
'I see that,' she answered. 'I'll be down in five minutes.'
'Right on.
Wendy Wunder
#57. Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
Douglas MacArthur
#58. The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
Leonard Bernstein
#61. The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.
Donald Phillip Verene
#62. Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.
James Luceno
#63. Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.
D.H. Lawrence
#64. Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#65. In his case, what had been hardness became cruelty, while a tendency to bluff became plain dishonesty. He often lied without hesitation and assumed that others lied to him.
William L. Shirer
#66. A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.
John Edensor Littlewood
#67. An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra
#68. The sunset was a red slit of light like a devil's eye, hanging low and depraved over the Mississippi River bluff.
Lisa Turner
#69. I rent a small brick bungalow within a loop of other small brick bungalows, all of which squat on a massive bluff overlooking the former stockyards of Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference.
Gillian Flynn
#70. Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.
Rafael Sabatini
#71. By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.
Pat Buchanan
#72. Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands ... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know ... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ... uh ... dosey-do.
Scott Adams
#73. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.
James Patterson
#75. Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
Knute Nelson
#76. Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.
Bob Dylan
#77. When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.
Leos Carax
#78. Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!
Marjane Satrapi
#79. On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.
John Allen Fraser
#80. One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
William McFee
#82. But today as then, the great propertied interests and their agents commit the most ferocious crimes in the name of the whole people, and bluff and brow-beat them by lying propaganda.
C.L.R. James
#83. Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.
Arnold Haultain
#84. Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard
#85. It was a test. That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call. "Party
Mark Lawrence
#86. The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."
John Dewey
#87. Bluff ain't effective for people of type-A.
Toba Beta
#88. Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#89. 26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.
Anne Carson
#90. As president of the United States, I don't bluff.
Barack Obama
#91. I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
Tori Amos
#92. Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town hall meeting in Tehran. That's telling 'em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they'd call her bluff.
Mark Steyn
#93. I'm going to be frank, Max ... "
"Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.
Alfred Alcorn
#94. I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots!
Dennis Liggio
