Tricks Quotes · Page 14

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

— Mark Millar

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

— Gary Gulman

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you.…

— Stephan Pastis

Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

— Ian Hunter

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

— Sunil Chhetri

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

— Adam Ant

A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

— Harlan Tarbell

“It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher…

— Natalie Valdes

A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear…

— Kate Beckinsale

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general…

— Helen Mirren

For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into…

— Andy Summers

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved,…

— Albert Camus

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed…

— Leo Burnett

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until…

— Ryan Sheckler

In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with…

— Yokoyama Sakujiro

Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for…

— Silvanus P. Thompson

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing…

— Pema Chodron

Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe…

— Alison Miller

They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't…

— Kristin Hannah

So there's that, and then there's always things you can do with the tips. Except for this, what they call the arrow…

— Jeremy Renner

When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as…

— Christopher Hitchens

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

— Dennis E Adonis

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier…

— Jane Siberry

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

— Dave Matthews

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

— D. H. Lawrence

I have some tricks in my mind and would like to first try them out in the practice sessions.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

— Joshua Foer

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

— Chuck Comeau

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

— Jeff Merkley

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

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a…

— Shaun White

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.

— Kevin Spacey

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

— Rex Stout

You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and…

— Dutch Schultz

I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.

— Keith Thurman

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

— Gil Kalai

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

— Heather Morris