Tricks Quotes
1143 quotes by 913 authors
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You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems…
— Joseph Heller
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms…
— William Shakespeare
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I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.
— Andy Warhol
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And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon…
— Albert Einstein
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The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half…
— Henry James
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to…
— Erica Jong
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There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
— William Shakespeare
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Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
— Daniel Handler
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Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not…
— Christopher Paolini
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you…
— Tennessee Williams
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The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.
— Tom Robbins
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God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and…
— Nick Cave
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The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for…
— Wendy Wasserstein
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I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?†I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s…
— Stephen Fry
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance…
— Joseph Heller
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I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which…
— Germaine Greer
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My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU…
— Shirley Temple
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When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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