Tricks Quotes

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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a… — Stephen Greenblatt
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before. — Lady Gregory
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton
Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a… — David Cone
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not… — Steve Coogan
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. — Mason Cooley
My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the… — David Copperfield
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well… — Justin Cronin
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine. — Evan Davis
I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be… — Paula Deen
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently… — Daniel Dennett
I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so… — Zooey Deschanel
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever… — Edsger Dijkstra
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. — Phyllis Diller
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. — Dorothy Dix
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal,… — Max Eastman
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. — Joshua Foer
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it… — Joshua Foer
I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a… — Mark Haddon

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