Tricks Quotes
1143 quotes by 913 authors
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What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
— John Christopher
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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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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
— H.G. Wells
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
— Ernest Hemingway
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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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Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly…
— Marisha Pessl
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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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It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we…
— Neil Gaiman
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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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The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with…
— George R. R. Martin
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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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I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a…
— Annie Dillard
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She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between…
— Markus Zusak
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The shower trick. Let's hear it, Kendall
— Julie James
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