Tricks Quotations | Page 3

The magic stuff was almost like light relief in a way, but of course it's also quite sinister, ... I learnt a couple of tricks, and I stole a line from a guy who was teaching me. He used to come in and do a few tricks for me, and he'd say 'I am magic!' You'll hear me say that in the piece.

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The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

The kid rides at a pro level now, and the future is bright for him. He loves to ride and progress, and it shows in the bag of tricks he has.

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

All day I was thinking to myself, just play, and don't be concerned about leading the field. The wind was doing all sort of tricks but I didn't really hit a bad shot until 13.

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 the trick.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick,

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

It's kind of like a training ground, ... But I just have so much fun here. I can come here to learn new tricks during my summer, and I don't need a whole mountain for that. It's tight, fresh and new. This is the first place in the world to give the people who ride here exactly what they want.

It wasn't the same without him in there. Cornelius is a crafty veteran. He's going to get out there and do things because he knows the tricks of the trade. After playing with him for two years, you get a feel for what he's going to do, and when someone else is in there, maybe they're not as quick or not as strong, and you react different, and it affects the whole defense.

You have to play tricks for the TV.

You have to play tricks with yourself to get motivated, ... It was another carrot to dangle in front of myself. Hopefully, it translates on the ice.

We've been talking about it for a couple weeks. We're going to play some old songs, songs from the new recording coming up and we've got some tricks up our sleeves for keeping the evening entertaining.

We had the master of the manipulators, playing for Scotty (Bowman) . We've seen all the tricks before. The game is going to be played on the ice. Not talking or stirring things up.

I told him we can get David Copperfield if we want a magic act. He needs to make sure the damn ball gets back there every time like it's supposed to. We're not keeping him just for his ability to do tricks and entertain the guys.

It's good and bad -- you don't want to show them everything you got, but I'm not going any tricks at you. I'm going to do the same thing each and every outing, compete and go after you. I'm not going to try to do anything different.

It shows them defense moves so that they can get away from attackers. We teach them tricks and techniques, and approach them in a way that wouldn't scare them. There is an educational value to it.

I cannot understand when a girl comes and tricks a hero such as this coach and says she's older than she is and then sells the story for hundreds of thousands.

He shows people how to do the tricks we sell. Magic is almost a separate part of the store. He takes care of everything, both buying and selling.

I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

In a way, I'm not at all jaded, and still enjoy so much what I do. It's a good trick.

The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.

The trick is to steal big.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

A solid giggle should do the trick.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

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 small talk.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

The trick is that you have to stay naked. You must be naked.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

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.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.

Trick names are so ridiculous!

I've had dreams about tricks.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

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 lay an egg?

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.

I don't know how to make magic. For most songwriter's that has only happened once or twice, and I don't know how to re-create that. I know that there are some tricks and tools, but the magic is the amazing part.

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

There`s always the trick with anything what`s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!