Tricks Quotes - Page 22

• Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

  Tim Vine

  Couple, Blow, Knows

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• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Faith, Writing

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

  Shaun White

  Work Out, Nails, Sticks

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• There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.

  Shaun White

  Air, Judging, Rooms

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• I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

  Pharrell Williams

  Want, Circus, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Change, Faith, Eye

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.

  Vir Das

  People, Laughing, Different

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• Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Stupid, Ignorance, Media

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• Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.

  Sylvia Plath

  Angel, Long, Waiting

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• Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Play, Quiet

  Song: Visions Of Johanna

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• Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Memories, Play, Stories

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Glasses, Breathing

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Dream, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• [Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO! Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Letting Go, Dad

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• He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

  Ian Mcewan

  Views, Kind, Affront

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• Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

  Lorrie Moore

  Magic

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Like Life”, p.172, Vintage

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• 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

  Answers, Might, Failing

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, 1961.

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Science

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

  Andy Warhol

  Believe, Mirrors, Light

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Crazy, Grief

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

  Henry James

  Girl, Determination, Thinking

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

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• There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Faith, Simple

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. 20

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• Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

  Daniel Handler

  Hilarious, Two, Three

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