Tricks Quotes · Page 20

You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way.…

— Blaine Hogan

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I'll just show you this one." He showed me…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

— Bill Gates

In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.

— Cassandra Clare

“Blame is very tricky in that it seems like a way out when it is really a form of imprisonment.”

— Bryant McGill

Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.

— Shaun White

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big…

— Bruno Mars

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

— Lauren DeStefano

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,…

— Jane Hirshfield

Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There’s too much to be done. I need to know– (Jericho) No. (Delphine) No, you d’in. (Jericho) Yes, I di’id. Don’t make…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,…

— Ray Bradbury

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick.…

— Bill Maher

I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit…

— Katherine Jenkins

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have…

— Carrie Brownstein

As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs…

— Maria V. Snyder

Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of…

— Joel Greenblatt

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality…

— Kenny Smith

In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what…

— Chris Pine

Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along…

— Janet Frame

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex,…

— Anonymous

I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete…

— Venus Williams

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good…

— Guy Kawasaki

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

— Anonymous

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or…

— Neil Gaiman

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

— Walter Smith

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as…

— Lady Gregory

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

— Sam Altman

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

— John Shirley

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

— Douglas Coupland

I think the best beauty trick is to take good care of your skin. Wash your face at night, wear sunscreen, and…

— Sophia Bush

Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who…

— Rene Lavand

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

— Anonymous

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

— Merlin Mann

“They try to trick me with the things I taught them, not realising that they only know what I permit”

— Mantšo Tšiu

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

— David Copperfield

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

— Erik Estrada

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

— John French Sloan

Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty…

— Elbert Hubbard