Quotes About Misdirection

I think I may have missed the world, that the one I've seen is a decoy to get me off the scent.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET Or like a whale? POLONIUS Very like a whale. HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.

If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.

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Duelo de ingenio con el inspector Ford El secuestro extravagante Os quiere, Kermit. P.S. Esto no es una broma. Adjunto una broma para que podáis apreciar la diferencia

There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.

The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick.

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another. You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.

I think I'm falling for a red herring here,

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

He guessed that in Washington two conversations often went on simultaneously: the one you meant and the one you said out loud.

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought.

But how can you keep watch on a woman? A woman can fool herself, not to mention others.

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mr. makepeace, do you really turn lead into gold? no, of course not. no one can do that. but if people think you're foolish enough to try, they don't bother to look at what you're really doing. they leave you in peace.

I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

FAUSTUS. To have fooled the philosopher. MAGUS. One finds, in my profession, sir, the greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection. FAUSTUS. One finds the same in mine.

Don't go to the hardware store for milk.

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

He took the bait like a rapist in a nudist colony for the blind.

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.