Quotes About Trick

this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand, except for this: Magicians rarely share their secrets.

My favourite prank in heavy metalwork was to get a penny and spend three or four minutes making it really hot with a blowtorch, and then leave it on Mr Lane's desk, so that he'd see it and pick it up out of curiosity. First you'd hear: 'Waaaaahhhhhh!' Then: 'Osbourne, you little bastard!' Heh-heh-heh. The old hot-penny trick. Priceless, man.

Life was so full of irony that he found himself asking if it was nothing more than a trick played on humanity by a Grand Illusionist with a black sense of humour.

Who knows what new devils we might create? And so now I tell you my story. Now is the time. For rumours swirl and oceans stir and in that maelstrom, I fear, devils will rise. Are rising. Have risen. The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late.

Choosing to experience pain to enhance subsequent pleasure is a powerful trick, but it only works some of the time.