The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to…

Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.…

— Lynsay Sands

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

— William Shakespeare

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would…

— Walter Kerr

Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the…

— Matthew Quick

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

— Lene Hau

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

— Mark Twain

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…

— Richard Dawkins

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

— Michael Pollan

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do…

— Peg Kehret

Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style.

— Stacy London

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who…

— Peter van Agtmael

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those…

— Jay Roach

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith