Quotes with trick

  • Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
  • I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
  • People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
  • There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
  • I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
  • But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
  • 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.
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  • William Somerset Maugham Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
    Ingrid Bergman
    Swedish actress (1915 - 1982)
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  • Harry Houdini An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Bob Uecker Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • David Blaine As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.
    David Blaine
    American illusionist (1973 - )
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  • Buddy Rich But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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 making his way down the street?
    If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.
    Working On A Dream (2009) The Wrestler
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bun E. Carlos I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Bun E. Carlos I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Sir Robert Anderson 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.
    Sir Robert Anderson
    English police officer, theologian and writer (1841 - 1918)
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Aesop Little by little does the trick.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Albert Einstein No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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