Trick Quotes
892 quotes by 712 authors
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Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of…
— Graham Greene
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As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long…
— Charlaine Harris
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Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question,…
— Bill Watterson
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
— Markus Zusak
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Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick.…
— Nancy Holder
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Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.†Halley: “The what?†Macon: “The…
— Sarah Dessen
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If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of…
— Norman Mailer
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As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody,…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror…
— Sherman Alexie
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Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted…
— John Waters
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I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste…
— Miranda July
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his…
— George Eliot
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Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from…
— Rick Moody
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The shower trick. Let's hear it, Kendall
— Julie James
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Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of…
— Rick Riordan
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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would…
— Sarah Dessen
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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay…
— Bruno Schulz
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