Tricks Quotes
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Insist on time with the person you love and make extended time for one another. learn to say no to desirable offers. get wise to the tricks of the multitude of thieves of your time and attention that swarm around you like gnats every second. have a clear vision of the life you want. You have to know what matters most to you, and you have to make time for that, with iron-fisted determination. Here is a hard and fast Law of Modern Life: if you do not take your time, it will be taken from you. If you do not insist on making time for what matters, you will not do what matters.
Edward Hallowell
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It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.
Alfred Sheinwold
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Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
Katharine Tynan
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
Thomas Hardy
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Wendy Wasserstein
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To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.
Richard Pryor
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I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.
Sandra Bullock
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I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
Steve Martin
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Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.
Ernest Newman
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A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay
Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.
Sterling Beaumon
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For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.
Edgar Davids
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Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
Seymour Cray
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The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.
Eugene Burger
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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
Albert Camus
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The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
Humphrey Carpenter
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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
Steven Millhauser
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Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
Nicholas Meyer
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
Stephen Fry
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Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.
Eloisa James
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The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
Nicholas Cresswell
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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
George Eliot
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They do tricks even I can't figure out.
Harry Houdini