When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I… — Ryan Sheckler Copy Share Image
A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden… It is sad that Nature will play such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
It’s all risk. And if it isn’t, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right… — Jim Krusoe Copy Share Image
Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors.… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I started skiing when I was five years old. I grew up on a little 300-foot mountain called Perfect North Slopes. It… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
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