Trick Quotes

#1. She did some sort of magic bra trick to get it off and out of her shirt. All women seemed to know the same maneuver.

Jamie McGuire

#2. The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.

Peter S. Beagle

#3. When you find that God is absent, you do many things. You temporize, for a while. You buy a new prayer book, hoping that perhaps some Celtic blessings might do the trick.

Lauren F. Winner

#4. The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.

Jack Ketchum

#5. I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

Janette Turner Hospital

#6. When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But the worst trick time plays on you is just how slowly the worst times in your life take you to live through.

Artie Lange

#7. Life is a puzzle, a riddle, a test, a mystery, a game - whatever challenge you wish to compare it to. Just remember, you're not the only participant; no one person holds all the answers, the pieces, or the cards. The trick to success in this life is to accumulate teammates and not opponents.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike ... dances with wildlife.

Mike Birbiglia

#9. The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.

Charlie Munger

#10. I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

Kieran Culkin

#11. These word-stringers make nothing, grow nothing, kill no enemies, catch no fish, and raise no cattle. They just take silver in exchange for words, which are free anyway. It is a clever trick, but in truth they are about as much use as priests.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Ivan Goncharov

#13. Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again.

Yarro Rai

#14. What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn't trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat

Judy Blundell

#15. I have a wardrobe full of scarves now, just about every color under the sun. My trick is that I always cut them in two, down the middle. They're lighter, thinner, skinnier that way. And because I'm cheap, I get two scarves for the price of one.

Colum McCann

#16. Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick.

Chuck Wendig

#17. I'm leaning on an old guy trick here, claiming my wife is being a typical irrational woman right as she begins saying things that I don't want to hear.

Matthew Norman

#18. Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

T.E.D. Klein

#19. The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

Michel Ocelot

#20. I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

Charlie Munger

#21. My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

Lucy Walker

#22. You end up hating so many people that without even noticing, you start to hate everyone. Including yourself. But that's the trick, you see? The trick that makes everything survivable. You've got to love somebody.

Patrick Ness

#23. The trick is to love somebody ... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

James A. Baldwin

#24. Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.

David Wheeler

#25. When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. SUBJECT: Real original
Dear Dark Assholes,
I get the point. Showing me that you know how to log onto a computer and utilize Google must've taken some pretty keen strategizing on your part.
Really, really cool trick. Now leave me the hell alone.
-The DL

S.L. Jennings

#27. People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Mitch Hedberg

#28. Fearlessness is an accounting trick. You feel the fear; you just defer it. I could stand on the cliff immobile, feeling terrified, or I could leap and feel the terror while falling.

Elizabeth McCracken

#29. I put things in perspective and trust that everything is in its right place, be grateful that I'm healthy. Then throw on a cap and some killer red lipstick and gloss, that always seems to do the trick.

Sasha Jackson

#30. Logic is trying to trick my mind into believing that what my heart is saying, is a lie ~
That's why I'll scream it loud and clear,
Your heart knows what your mind won't always hear.

Nikki Rowe

#31. The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

Bruce Berkowitz

#32. The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Dick Cavett

#33. Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.

Greg Norman

#34. It's strange, because I remember the biggest point of my childhood was one Halloween when I was trick or treating and ended up at Henry Winkler's house and he answered the door. So I got to meet The Fonz. That was cool.

Brian Austin Green

#35. Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

Doris Lessing

#36. Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana

Michael Grant

#37. We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

Camille Paglia

#38. Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

Sam Walton

#39. The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

Joe Jamail

#40. The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

Bill Gates

#41. Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it!

Laurie Colwin

#42. The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be.

Oliver Burkeman

#43. If you aren't ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can only ever understand your life backwards, but you live it forward.

Valentine Glass

#44. What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

Lake Bell

#45. Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

Don Marquis

#46. Nothing pleased the Mongols more than a good trick on the field of battle.

Conn Iggulden

#47. The trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.

Gordon R. Dickson

#48. Here's the dangerous thing about Jesus: He's not after your behaviour; he's after your heart. Make no mistake about it. Jesus is going to relentlessly and passionately pursue your heart. Even when your behaviour tricks everybody else, it just doesn't trick Jesus. He's coming after the heart.

Perry Noble

#49. Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

Barry Lyga

#50. The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag.

Whipplesnaith

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

Douglas MacArthur

#52. Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

Catherynne M Valente

#53. 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

#54. As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well
a trick I had learned from my father.

Maria V. Snyder

#55. We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.

Shashi Tharoor

#56. Pick 'treat'. Please, for the love of God, pick 'treat'. -Trick

M. Leighton

#57. Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

Jeffrey Tucker

#58. Mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

Will Schwalbe

#59. The
trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start
digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something
will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

Debbi Fields

#60. Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Evan Davis

#61. Menopause: it had to be the gods' ironic warning to (or just plain nasty trick on) humanity for having artificially extended the life span,

Haruki Murakami

#62. Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Wyatt Earp

#63. Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

Adam Schlesinger

#64. but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you

Charles Bukowski

#65. I'm thinking that my best friend killed herself so slow it was almost like a magic trick, and other people let her do it.

Brenna Yovanoff

#66. For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

Edward Rutherfurd

#67. Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.
Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe

Jacob Nordby

#68. She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?"
"Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment."
"Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer.
"Yes, may it curse my soul."
"May it save your soul," she said.

Anne Stuart

#69. Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink

Jim Steinmeyer

#70. One useful trick, I discovered, is to avoid listening to the question of the interviewer, and answer with whatever I have been thinking about recently. Remarkably, neither the interviewers nor the public notices the absence of correlation between question and answer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#71. My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Phyllis Diller

#72. We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

Chuck Comeau

#73. Wow, Fitz breathed, and Sophie hoped he meant the river trick
but it was hard to tell with the way he was staring at Linh.

Shannon Messenger

#74. A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

Julia Peterkin

#75. I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.

Genie Francis

#76. It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

B.J. Novak

#77. All the help that comes to us is form the Holy Spirit, whether it comes in a dream or through the help of a friend or doctor. The trick is the discrimination you need: to tell what's good for you and what's not good for you. This comes by listening to your heart.

Harold Klemp

#78. The trick was to understand America, to know that America was give-and-take. You gave up a lot but you gained a lot, too.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#79. I always see your magic, Isaac. Did you know that? It's sure not a magic trick that makes me like you, right? From now on and forever

Ryohgo Narita

#80. The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Horatio Nelson

#81. Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples ... it was a trick pie!

Noel Fielding

#82. Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

Dan Castellaneta

#83. I never met a kid I couldn't teach. Every kid was good at something, and the trick was to find out what it was, then use it to teach him everything else. It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the next day.

Jeannette Walls

#84. The trick is to find a day job that pays decently, doesn't make you want to vomit, and leaves you with enough energy to make things in your spare time. Good day jobs aren't necessarily easy to find, but they're out there.

Austin Kleon

#85. It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

Jane Birkin

#86. I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Michael Caine

#87. I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.

RuPaul

#88. Anybody ever tell you you're a cute little trick?

Raymond Chandler

#89. Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

Peter L. Berger

#90. Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

David Wong

#91. Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

Sam Altman

#92. Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

Roberto Giobbi

#93. I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

Brad Paisley

#94. Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

Storm Jameson

#95. Perhaps the giver of the name had meant to trick Cheepi, the devil-god, into thinking him unloved and therefore leaving him alone.

Geraldine Brooks

#96. To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about ... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up ... Your muscles trick you; they did me.

Richard Pryor

#97. The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Michael Heizer

#98. You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.

Trey Parker

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

Daniel Dennett

#100. It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Hesiod