Quotes About Trick

Reality, in a sense, was not an objective place where you were thrust. You had to maintain your hold on it by vigilantly keeping watch over whatever slight and intangible thing gave your life its meaning. Call it a soul, or presence. Whatever it was, a prisoner or guest and you had to trick it or petition it into lingering.

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows.

I knew this girl named Tropicana, She's always juicin'. Producing cash for a sexual task. She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat... You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.

Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

The symbol of peace cannot be daunted by evil. I smile to show the pressure of heroes and to trick the fear inside of me.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end. If you read the end first, you may have much less patience for wasting time with that kind of book. Even a well-written book can be silly and a waste of time.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

But if you use her psychological trick and view sleep as the beginning of the following day, it can be easier to slip into the sheets.