Tricks Quotes · Page 31

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e.…

— Phil Jones

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

— Alan Bennett

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow…

— Rita Mae Brown

I am pleased with the race and happy with fourth position. It was a real shame for the team that Felipe had…

— Valtteri Bottas

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But…

— William Gibson

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

— Douglas Coupland

The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay…

— Lawrence Kushner

If you fight for a living you can't give a damn about the opponent because they're trying to take food out of…

— Gene LeBell

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

— Albert Camus

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would…

— Janet Fitch

Organizing time is exactly like organizing space. Just as a closet is a limited amount of space into which you must fit…

— Julie Morgenstern

I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me…

— Eva Longoria

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

— Joseph Addison

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a…

— Vinod Khosla

Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think…

— Anonymous

Oak Hill is a classic golf course. There aren't a lot of tricks to it.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've…

— Rick Yancey

I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy,…

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Laura Prepon

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

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

— Steven Millhauser

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But…

— Gaston Leroux

It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind. But when you're a governor, you have to admit it. You can't…

— Chris Christie

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and…

— Nick Goepper