Tricks Quotes
1143 quotes by 883 authors
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Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it…
— William Shakespeare
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She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know…
— Raymond Chandler
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Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."…
— William Goldman
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Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks.…
— Chris Cleave
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Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
— Garth Nix
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Hey, Vader, keep your Jedi mind tricks to yourself. That hurt! (Jesse)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.
— Sarah Dessen
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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them.…
— Charles de Lint
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I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable,…
— Carrie Vaughn
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There’s too much to be done. I need to know– (Jericho) No. (Delphine) No, you d’in. (Jericho) Yes, I di’id. Don’t make me use my…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up…
— Gena Showalter
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We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements…
— Anna Godbersen
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
— Harlan Ellison
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That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
— Robin Hobb
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Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going."…
— Michael Scott
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Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!
— Groucho Marx
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He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All…
— Khaled Hosseini
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As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do…
— Jonathan Tropper
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