Trick Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. (Ingrid Bergman)
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. View quote
Tom Peters
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage. View quote
Robert Anderson
The trick is growing up without growing old. View quote
Casey Stengel
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. View quote
Tennessee Williams
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. View quote
Marvin Minsky
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps. View quote
Benjamin Graham
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. (Desmond Morris)
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. View quote
E. B. White
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. View quote
Ray Bradbury
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 as first love. View quote
Albert Einstein
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 willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. View quote
Paula Deen
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 very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. View quote
Dan Castellaneta
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe. View quote
Charlie Huston
Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free/ If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me. Have you ever seen a one legged dog makin' his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one legged dog then you've seen me. (Bruce Springsteen)
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. View quote
Ben Kingsley
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, that does not live by secrecy. View quote
Joseph Pulitzer
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 that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. View quote
Raymond Chandler