Ricky Jay Quotes

One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.

Ricky Jay

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• You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Seen

• I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Me
  • Really
  • Well

• I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Why
  • Help
  • Mistakes

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Help
  • Future

• The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Father
  • Body
  • Force

• I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Lost
  • Audiences
  • Recovered

• Senior academic condemns ‘deluded’ supporters of GM food as being ‘anti-science’ and ignoring evidence of dangers (4 March 2015)

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Science
  • Food
  • Senior

• I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Up
  • Emotional

• One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Literature
  • Bible

• I'm not rushing into my divorce, because I'm not looking to get married tomorrow, so I don't have a deadline. I'm not rushing it. So when it's time, and it's supposed to happen, it will.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Time
  • Divorce

• I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Help
  • Ambition

• States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.

  

  Cole Sprouse

• I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Mistake

• People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

  

  Bill Irwin
  • People
  • Done

• There is no clear distiction between white supremacy and the multicultual mindset.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • White
  • Clear
  • Mindset

• You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Charming
  • Gorgeous
  • Rest Of Your Life

• We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Short

• I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Winning

• There are two ways to die here,’ the fighter concluded. ‘You can die doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or die doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

  

  Anthony Loyd
  • Die
  • Reason
  • Right

• One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Reason