Quotes About Trick

This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito.

They looked, to all intents and purposes, like living men and women. But then wasn't that the trick of their craft? To imitate life so well the illusion was indistinguishable from the real thing?

Cabrillo use an old stock-car driver's trick, weaving the jeep to slosh the gasoline in the tank. It seemed to work because the engine purred.

There was a rhythm, an alternation in the dripping that I found as teasing as a coin trick.

To qualify as an adventure, something needs to be enjoyable, awe-inspiring, meaningful, or at least generate a really good story for parties. All of these are worth experiencing in life alongside the wine-and-YouTube routine. So I employed my favorite mental trick that makes anything tough more doable: Picture yourself on the other side.

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

And so saw, by a trick, an angle, a flaring of torchlight far down the dark river, how the arrow—white-feathered, she would remember, white as innocence, as winter in midsummer, as death—fell from the summit of its long, high arc to take the coran in the shoulder, driving him, slack and helpless, from the rope into the river amid laughter turned to screaming in the night.

You can't argue with a fool, It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.

While Republicans trick out their poisonous stereotype of the liberal elite, Democrats seem determined to live up to the libel.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

Still, I've got to hand it to you. As the trick said to the blind hooker.

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme. Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other people. One of his numbers was to stare at the person he was talking to. He would stare into their fucking eyeballs, ask some question, and would want a response without the other person averting their eyes.

It was a reminder that the most desperate battles are fought in our hearts and souls, and that death is only one final trick of the mind.

The word love and the word Libra are practically synonymous. Libra invented romance, and refined it to an art with even more finesse than Leo, Scorpio and Taurus, which is saying a lot... He'll use every trick with casual ease and seldom fail to get the girl. However, once he gets her, he isn't always sure what to do with her... He often gets friendship and love hopelessly confused.

Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

The trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

Fair is fair, Buzzy—and you're foul by a mile. You tried to pull a fast one with that phony scarecrow. But you messed with the wrong guy. Now the trick's on you. It's time to hit the road. Yeah, Kim said. Just dry up and blow away.

Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

What was the "grail"? 25 mg of acarbose (¼ pill) with food. He learned this trick from Peter Attia (page 59), who I introduced him to.

The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.

hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say "Boo!

No, the founders of our culture didn't just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it, and the whip they used was this meme: Growing all your own food is the best way to live. Nothing less could imaginably have done this amazing trick.