Quotes About Bluffing

#1. I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.

Jeremih

#2. I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.

Jools Holland

#3. I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.

Joss Whedon

#4. When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

Peter Thiel

#5. The two men maintain firm eye contact. A poker game, both of them bluffing. Or pretending to.

Chris Pavone

#6. I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.

Morrie Brickman

#7. I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.

Sienna Guillory

#8. I'm like a poker player, bluffing with whatever cards equal a really shitty hand. I should mention that I have no fucking idea how to play poker. "You

Matthew Norman

#9. We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

#10. The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.

Gerald R. Ford

#11. The sky had started off bluffing, convoys of dark clouds scurrying across like sheep to market. But by afternoon a perfect blue canopy stretched from horizon to horizon.

Abraham Verghese

#12. 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

#13. Lorraina, you had to have known that I was bluffing when I acted like I was over you. I have your initials tattooed on my arm. I have your face tattooed in my brain. I have your soul tattooed in my heart.

Lynetta Halat

#14. The transparency and intelligibility of a country with a free market economy can reassure its neighbors that it is not going on a war footing, which can defuse a Hobbesian trap and cramp a leader's freedom to engage in risky bluffing and brinkmanship.

Steven Pinker

#15. Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It's an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.

Cheryl Hines

#16. 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

#17. I might be bluffing, you miserable, vomitous mass!" Bran yelled. Oh, for heaven's sake. Really? He's quotin' The Princess Bride?

Julie Ann Walker

#18. Don't assume I'm bluffing Nan. Because this time you've fucked with something I care about. This affects me, so listen and shut the hell up

Abbi Glines

#19. It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

Sloane Crosley

#20. Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience
but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

H.P. Lovecraft

#21. Hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

Rick Riordan

#22. The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

Hermann Goring

#23. I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

Davy Jones

#24. You don't need to be so fierce and bluffing..
if you already know that I can't be intimidated.

Toba Beta

#25. Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

Andrew Zimbalist

#26. I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.

Richard M. Nixon

#27. You think I should use magick like mine to open a tomb?" Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here. "That'd be like calling you in to lift a feather.

Kresley Cole

#28. One doctor in Chicago said I was bluffing, but what he really meant was that I was a twin six and he had never seen one before.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#29. Telekinetic Poker Players
You can tell telekinetic poker-players are bluffing ~
they raise you.

Beryl Dov

#30. There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

Dan Scanlon

#31. Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

Ron Livingston

#32. hierarchies are lies. Because no one needs the alpha. He gets to the top by puffing and bluffing until we all believe he belongs there. When your power is built on ignorance, you don't want people talking to each other.

Isaac Marion

#33. Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

Andrew Plotkin

#34. There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning ...

Emily Carr

#35. We are all specialised forms of survivor. We lack what we fundamentally need and forge ahead regardless, hurriedly hiding our wounds, disguising our ineptitude, bluffing our way through our weaknesses.

Michel Faber

#36. You can't bluff your way past everyone."
"You mean about filleting that guy?" Sera returned.
"Who said I was bluffing?

Erin Kellison

#37. It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

J.D. Salinger

#38. 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

#39. It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Mark Twain

#40. Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don't screw it up by looking like you're as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.

Jim Butcher

#41. The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

#42. Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all.

Michael Dobbs

#43. Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you).
Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Tip 1 for Mortals: Ask God to call your bluffs.

N.D. Wilson

#44. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.

Bill Willingham

#45. Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jack London