Tricks Quotes - Page 24

• Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Coffee, Nails

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• Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

  Markus Zusak

  Happiness, Stealing, Internals

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.372, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

  John Christopher

  Mind, Glad

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• Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.

  Nancy Holder

  Song, Sweet, Passion

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• Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.” Halley: “The what?” Macon: “The Jedi Mind Trick.” He looked at me. “Didn’t you ever see Star Wars?

  Sarah Dessen

  Stars, War, Mind

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• If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Hate, Ifs

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• Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

  H. G. Wells

  Clever, Mistake, Men

  H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.12, Everyman's Library

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• I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, May, Resolution

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• You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Effectiveness, You Like It

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.82, Henry Holt and Company

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• As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Life, Baggage, Helping

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Ocean

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• Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.

  Marisha Pessl

  Sweet, Epic, Greek

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.84, Penguin

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• That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

  John Waters

  Reading, Pops, Nun

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

  Miranda July

  Real, Said Life, Orange Juice

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

  George Eliot

  Legs, Break, Heavy

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.715, Wordsworth Editions

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• Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.

  Rick Moody

  Country, Stupid, Moving

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• I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.80, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Feel Better, Orange

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Random House

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• The shower trick. Let's hear it, Kendall

  Julie James

  Showers

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.218, Penguin

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• Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fighting, Army

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• She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Games, Next

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.320, Penguin

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• Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.

  Bruno Schulz

  Men, Self, Cost

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Character, Fool

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• Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Wall, Real

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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