Ricky Jay Quotes

Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Book
  • You
  • Gift

• When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Kind
  • Internet
  • Fame

• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Literature
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • Changes

• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kind

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Business

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  

  Mae West
  • She
  • Success
  • Girl

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Real
  • Serious
  • Face

• Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Light

• People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

  

  Dean Bakopoulos
  • People
  • Home
  • Book

• The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Live
  • Family
  • Together

• What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • People
  • Time
  • Question

• Toronto deserves Rob Ford; they put him in office. Toronto deserves everything it gets.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Office
  • Deserves

• Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Serious