Quotes About Trickster

He'd like to make you believe he's our leader, but it's more than Nicasia likes power, I like dramatics, and Valerian likes violence. Cardan can provide us with all three, or at least excuses for all three.' 'Dramatics?' I echo. 'I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can't find a good enough story, I make one.' He looks every inch the trickster in that moment.

The Joker is a powerful archetype: They are the jester, the dunce, the trickster, and the shape-shifter.

This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.

Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.

We're all tricksters. Each and every one of us. No one is a totally reliable narrator. Life is all Story. Every bit of it. We see things through the filter of our own unique worldviews, through our own longings and fears and loves, through our own traumas. Not one single person on this earth is able to

Tricksters have a key function in life and art. I maintain that if a trickster pranks her way into your life, it's time to pay attention. They are the definition of duality. Both heroic and villainous, foolish and wise, benign and malicious. Both lovable and hateful. Friendly and fearsome. Both light and dark.

When I mention to my shrink that I play roles in public—acting wild-style—she smiles and I ask her what's funny. "You're a trickster, Kit," she says. "That's not a bad thing. Tricksters have a key function in life and art.

Who knew grief could be so goddamned physical, a dark and sly trickster that blindsided you when you weren't even thinking about loss,

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

You're really that good? he said at last. Loki shrugged. I'm Loki.

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

Jacob the trickster gets his due. After pulling off the ruse, he has to run for his life and spends 20 years in exile with his uncle. Uncle Laban then gives Jacob a dose of his own medicine by planting an unwanted sister in his wedding bed and by repeatedly changing his wages as head shepherd.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

She dreams she is in a glass coffin. From her prison, details have beauty. In her aloneness, she imagines emotions. Her husband is the perfect bridegroom, the trickster, the small boy looking for mother. She is goddess and mirror, siren and friend, femme fatale and sacrificing wife. He is attracted to her girlhood purity, her desire to sacrifice, to serve. At first he may be flattered: she sees him as a god.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

He did something so un-Pucklike, Sabrina couldn't believe it. He got up sat behind her, and let his enormous fairy wings sprout from his back. Then he wrapped them around her to keep the bitter cold away. It was the first truly nice thing the so-called Trickster King had ever done for her.

Trickster," he said, sniffing the boy. "Love will be the end of you.

You never know what Legbara going to take it into he head to do. Him is a trickster. The Eshu-them too love to play games.

It's more like the work of a prankster than a vengeful spirit.

God is Infinite, Irresistible, Inexorable, Indifferent. God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay— God is Change. Beware: God exists to shape And to be shaped.

God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace

God is Power— Infinite, Irresistible, Inexorable, Indifferent. And yet, God is Pliable— Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay. God exists to be shaped. God is Change.

God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace—and how to deal with the others.

Coyote never loses, Coyote told me. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?