Top 100 Tricky Quotes
#1. If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.
Daniel Portman
#2. Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.
Scott Yanow
#3. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.
Tori Amos
#4. Revenge is a tricky beast. Her claws face both ways. I don't mind a few more scars. They'll be unnoticed among the rest.
Kim Harrison
#5. I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.
Julie Kagawa
#6. Trust is a tricky thing. It can bite you hard when you least expect it to.
Steph Campbell
#7. I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.
Alicia Keys
#8. It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#9. You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.
Louis Oosthuizen
#10. But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.
Jennifer Estep
#11. Confessions are tricky. Many times,as you're confessing something to another person, you discover some new, valuable lesson about yourself.
Karrine Steffans
#12. You're a talented artist," he began, and I burst into more tears. He jumped up, agitated, and tried to give the book back to me. "What?" he demanded anxiously. "I mean it! You are! Orange is tricky!
Vicki Keire
#13. Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
Julie Delpy
#14. Blame is very tricky in that it seems like a way out when it is really a form of imprisonment.
Bryant McGill
#15. People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.
David Wenham
#16. Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
Faith Sullivan
#17. Fate is a tricky animal. Those who believe they harness it, often find a difficult beast to master.
Daniel McHugh
#18. I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
Jane Asher
#19. Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.
Tori Amos
#20. Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Adrienne Rich
#21. Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
Stone Gossard
#22. The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.
Dan Hill
#23. come home tomorrow. Getting back to Maeve's was tricky. There was a new
Denise Grover Swank
#24. But that was the thing with anger. That was the tricky thing about pain. Sometimes it was hiding around a corner just waiting to slice you from stomach to throat.
Sunil Yapa
#25. The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
Northrop Frye
#26. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.
Hilarie Burton
#27. I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else.
Ariana Grande
#28. Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."
Marie Calloway
#29. Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense.
Vint Cerf
#30. There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
Emma Donoghue
#31. I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.
Jamie Bell
#32. Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
Andrew Bird
#33. Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.
James Baldwin
#34. Like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#35. You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Tony Blair
#36. Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.
Les Claypool
#37. The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
Daniel Craig
#38. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.
William Poundstone
#39. Its that tricky thing called hope and that contagious thing called faith, that draws this very fine line between winning and losing.
Deepak Vidyarthi
#40. Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation ... Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.
Jay Carr
#41. Women were tricky creatures under the best of circumstances. This was not the best of circumstances.
Genevieve Dewey
#42. Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.
Kate Bornstein
#43. You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.
Ice Cube
#44. Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead
Suzanne Collins
#45. Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.
Gautam Adani
#46. TV is tricky. You can do some stuff and people will tune out and never tune back in. It's sort of like putting a bad taste in somebody's mouth. Some people may not ever tune in again. And then there's some people that will tune in just to tune in and see what's gon' happen.
NeNe Leakes
#47. Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.
Graham Chapman
#48. I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts.
Dana Spiotta
#49. Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] and PNP [People's National Party], and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.
Usain Bolt
#50. Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real life and feel that they have to create imaginary lives to make up for it.
Alexander McCall Smith
#51. Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.
Steven Redhead
#52. gentle and innocent as wolves
as tricky as a prince
Gary Snyder
#53. You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
Kevin Costner
#54. TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
Roger Avary
#55. Happiness is a tricky business. It may not have as much to do with doing as it has to do with not doing.
Art Hochberg
#56. I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.
Noomi Rapace
#57. It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
Lili Taylor
#58. It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.
Sally Mann
#59. I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things.
Matt Haig
#60. The tricky bit was figuring out where we were because I couldn't imagine anyone, God included, daring to send Lilith Bresson to hell.
Tabitha McGowan
#62. What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.
H. Rider Haggard
#63. I believe that you believe that. But this thing, whatever it is, it's tricky. Manipulative. A liar. And it's smarter than you."
"I'll try not to be offended by that."
"You shouldn't be."
"What do you think it is?"
"Something very old and very evil.
C.K. Walker
#64. Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
Voltaire
#65. He knew in his heart that spinning upside down around a pole wearing a costume you could floss with definitely was not Art, and being painted lying on a bed wearing nothing but a smile and a small bunch of grapes was good solid Art, but putting your finger on why this was the case was a bit tricky.
Terry Pratchett
#67. I'd tried to be washed of my sin once, but I ran out of Dial. Tricky business, that.
Darynda Jones
#68. It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
Bjork
#69. Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'
Liz Williams
#70. I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
Vincent Piazza
#71. Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?
Michel Faber
#72. I think to describe 'The Gates' as a genre show is tricky because when you think of what's a vampire show or what's a supernatural kind of thing, I think other shows ... maybe focus on that element probably slightly more than our show does.
Chandra West
#73. Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
John Slattery
#74. Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It's staying out of the rat race that's tricky.
Fennel Hudson
#75. Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.
Tom Shippey
#76. I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets ... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.
George Clooney
#77. Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
Maya Lin
#78. I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.
Tom Ford
#79. As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.
Matthea Harvey
#80. Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?
Stacey D'Erasmo
#81. I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly less tricky than finding the right partner to share it with.
Andy Barrie
#82. At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.
Anna Gavalda
#83. The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending to venture into such tricky waters needs to have an intimate knowledge of all the hidden reefs.
John Nunn
#84. I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.
Judit Polgar
#85. Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
Arabella Weir
#86. I've wanted to write about them for a long while,
but it's a tricky subject,
always put off for later
and perhaps worthy of a better poet,
even more stunned by the world than I.
But time is short. I write.
Wislawa Szymborska
#87. Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.
Agatha Christie
#88. 'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.
Ben Macintyre
#89. Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate.
Leila Janah
#90. Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.
Andy Serkis
#91. She would always be careful around people like Parley Burns, tricky people who are thin skinned and punitive and intelligent and surprisingly honest.
Elizabeth Hay
#92. It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.
Carey Mulligan
#93. So after they'd been swindled and bamboozled by the Terrans enough times they retreated to their home planets and bolted all the doors and drew all the curtains. Terrans are tricky customers to deal with even for other humans, so a saintly robot would have had no chance.
J.H.G. Foss
#94. Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
Brian Herbert
#95. I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
Eli Wallach
#96. The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.
Robert Powell
#97. Self expression is a tricky
thing. Just as you start to feel
comfortable with yourself after years
of not, you then have to justify
yourself to other people.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#98. When we're putting out records that people are responding to, it's amazing. And it's obviously what we shoot for every time. It's a tricky balancing act. But as long as it's sort of a righteous idea, then you're good to go.
El-P
#99. Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.
Dorie Greenspan
#100. Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
Daniel Boulud
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