Tricks Quotes · Page 19

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

— Brian Michael Bendis

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

— Stephen King

Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.

— Pia Zadora

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and…

— Laura Prepon

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable…

— Katy Perry

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

— Erick Erickson

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

— Henry James

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip…

— Liberace

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit…

— Jeffrey Lewis

Yes, believe me I am black and blue. Plus I just finished a Seth MacFarlane movie called Ted and I can't believe…

— Joel McHale

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is…

— Twiggy

Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet -…

— Elizabeth Warren

I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for…

— Stephen Merchant

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients,…

— James Cook

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the…

— Steve Truglia

It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as…

— Bette Greene

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something…

— Antoine Fuqua

Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that…

— Stuart J. Russell

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a…

— George Carlin

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be…

— Baltasar Gracian

I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but…

— Sterling Beaumon

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

— Simon Sinek

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

— Marian Seldes

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

— Howard Nemerov

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

— Dan Harmon

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need…

— Robin Hobb

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

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

— Storm Jameson

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

— Bob Dylan

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

— William Shakespeare

Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

— Anonymous

Good SEO work only gets better over time. It's only search engine tricks that need to keep changing when the ranking algorithms…

— Jill Whalen

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and…

— Lee Child

In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really…

— Erislandy Lara

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein