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Quotes About Trick

MY GENES DONE GONE AND TRICKED MY BRAIN BY MAKING FUCKING FEEL SO GREAT THAT'S HOW THE LITTLE CREEPS ATTAIN THEIR PLAN TO FUCKIN' REPLICATE BUT BRAIN'S GOT TRICKS ITSELF, YOU SEE TO GET THE BANG BUT NOT THE BITE I GOT THIS HERE VASECTOMY MY GENES CAN FUCK THEMSELVES TONIGHT. —The R-Selectors, "Trunclade
~ Peter Watts
So I sat down on the stairs and removed my shoes and socks, putting them on again in reverse order, with the socks over the shoes. It's an old trick, favoured by burglars, for muffling the sound of shoe-leather on a hard surface.
~ Philip Kerr
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
~ Phyllis Diller
Time doesn't fly, it steals. Like some skilled pickpocket or magician, it gets you to look the other way and when you do, it ruthlessly steals your essential things—memories, great moments that end much too soon, the lives of those you love. It knows how to trick you and then steal you blind.
~ Jonathan Carroll
I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation the impression, is repeated. But, as I say, it may be mere loyalty,a mere trick of memory a mere confusion we once felt,thus it may be said that poetry is a new experience every time,every time I read a poem the experience happns to occur and that is poetry
~ Jorge Luís Borges
And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter - not to make him feel like a fool who had fallen for a trick, but rather because he had said, 'you had better luck with matches,' when in fact I had not. It was not the matches that brought him across the street. It was the matches that kept him on the bench.
~ Adam Levin
Then he told me that that was like the Stranger. "That book?" "You wind a rubber band around your wrist so your hand falls asleep." "Oh," I said. "Does it do the trick?" Tom wished to God he knew, but there were never any rubberbands when he needed one.
~ Adam Levin
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
~ Ray Bradbury
There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick (p. 58).
~ Ray Bradbury
Trick, yes, trick.' The boys were catching fire with the idea. It made all the good glue go out of their joints and put a little dust of sin in their blood. They felt it stir around until it pumped on up to light their eyes and stretch their lips to show their happy-dog teeth. 'Yeah, sure
~ Ray Bradbury
And with the trick, much admired by magicians, of sitting in a green velour chair and-vanishing! Turn your head and you forgot his face. Vanilla pudding.
~ Ray Bradbury
Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time
~ Ray Bradbury
does the price matter, if the trick be well done? You do your tricks very well. And I didn't do badly either, since I managed not to sink that steamboat on my first trip. It's a wonder to me yet. Imagine a blindfolded man set to
~ Joseph Conrad
Tudja, ez lehet a megoldás: dicsekedjünk azzal, amit szégyenlenünk kellene. Ez olyan trükk, ami, úgy látszik, mindig beválik.
~ Joseph Heller
You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail." "Do you think it will work?" "I'm sure it will. And let's promote him to captain, too, just to make certain.
~ Joseph Heller
You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.
~ Joseph Heller
How many murders occur in the state of Michigan in one year? The question, which was also devised by Shane Frederick, is again a challenge to System 2. The "trick" is whether the respondent will remember that Detroit, a high-crime city, is in Michigan.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Memory uses the filling-in trick, but imagination is the filling-in trick
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
I was floating around up there like a feather, a trick from early childhood that was fading as I got older.
~ Donna Tartt
SUSAN'S FLAT WAS small but spacious, which was a trick, reflected Richard tensely as he turned on the light, that only women seemed able to pull off.
~ Douglas Adams
Ford kicked at the door. It opened. "Mixture of pleasure and pain," he muttered. "Always does the trick.
~ Douglas Adams
Mixture of pleasure and pain," he muttered. "Always does the trick.
~ Douglas Adams
La guía dice que volar es un arte; o más bien un truco. El truco consiste en aprender a tirarse al suelo y fallar.
~ Douglas Adams
The earth is four-fifths water, that's a lot of room to hide, so the great trick of naval warfare has always been to find the enemy before he finds you. You're finished, if you can't do that, and all the courage and sacrifice in the world simply adds up to a lost war.
~ Alan Furst