Tricks Quotes

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One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me. — Dan Harmon
People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though… — Mitch Hedberg
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. — Lee Iacocca
I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note… — Katherine Jenkins
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and… — Penn Jillette
One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no… — Penn Jillette
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that… — Penn Jillette
Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He… — Rush Limbaugh
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning… — Eric Liu
The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. — James Lovelock
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an… — Bill Maher
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies. — Bruno Mars
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham
Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works. — Paul McCartney
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. — Bryant H. McGill
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. — Helen Mirren
I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to… — Helen Mirren

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