Quotes About Playing Tricks

#1. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.

George Orwell

#2. Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

Anthony Kiedis

#3. EDUCATIONAL DECREE NUMBER 87: MISCHIEF MUST ALWAYS BE MANAGED Use moderation when playing tricks on others. Too much Draco-like behavior can get you punched.

Kerin Morataya

#4. I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

Chen Guangbiao

#5. The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

Rasmus Lerdorf

#6. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

Mason Cooley

#7. Playing tricks on me, using a pair of

Mimi Strong

#8. Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me
and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

Kerri Walsh

#11. Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.

Mordecai Richler

#12. A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

George Amos Dorsey

#16. There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Dave Brubeck

#17. Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Joyce Meyer

#18. 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

#19. It would be silly for a demon to dress up and go trick-or-treating. What would I be anyways, a human girl? Ha, it's funny. I kind of already am playing dress up. I get random treats, only to be taunted that they were but tricks. Turns out, it's not so funny.

Amy Lunderman

#20. It is one of the Laws of the Universe that when you need a big hole to swallow you up, it is never there.

Poppy Inkwell

#21. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Malcolm Gladwell

#22. You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

John Carpenter

#23. But it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life.

Paul Pilkington

#24. There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.

Janet Fish

#25. What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives.

Harry Houdini

#26. Is the prosperity of a class really identifiable with the well-being of a country?

Eduardo Galeano

#27. With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

Aaron Swartz

#28. The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

Robert Breault

#29. Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.

Bruce Vilanch

#30. He's playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he's doing and I don't. Don't blame me because he's a better manipulator than I am - I haven't been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

Stephenie Meyer

#31. History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.

Dan Brown

#32. Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.

Arthur Schopenhauer