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“Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.”

Artist Effects Produce Elements Tricks Artistic Excellent Endeavor Bullets Superficial Employed Initials Arrows Brackets Ornamentation

Author:Paul Rand

“But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.”

Needs Light Together Fire Tricks Resorts Turntables Flashing Lights

Author:Buddy Rich

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

“In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.”

Four Broken Taste Add Tricks Tea Pot Mexico Salt Crystals Kettles

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.”

Doe Ends Stories Seems Possibility Tricks Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google.”

Use Remember Tricks Google Traffic Remember When Youtube Integrated

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.”

People World Kind Has Beens Force Century Involved Aim Various Tricks Establishment Stamps Get Involved Examination Dissent

Author:Pete Seeger

“No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.”

Desire Special Tricks Equipment Pills Gimmicks

Author:Richard Simmons

“There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.”

Thinking Littles Important Different Perfect Color Comfort Shoes Size Tricks Heels

Author:Jessica Simpson

“The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.”

Important Sacrifice Balance Important Things Tricks Norm

Author:Simon Sinek

“The trick is growing up without growing old.”

Inspiration Motivational Age Growing Up Growing Aging Tricks Old Age Coaching Motivational Sports Old People Growing Old

Author:Casey Stengel

“My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.”

Ifs Looks Kids Mother Drawing Tricks Supportive

Author:David Blaine

“Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.”

Play Reality Running Imagination Roles Keys Rap Tricks Dirty Manipulation Greedy Adept Speculators

Author:James Surowiecki

“When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.”

Ifs Knows Kind Two Real Understanding Challenges Animal Seeing Tests Come Up Deeper Tricks Command Remarkable Researchers Obeying Deeper Understanding Real Intelligence

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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.”

People Thinking Way Years Play Bigs Able Sports Ability Greater Tricks League Feats Think Big

Book:If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

Source: If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

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

Knows Couple Blow Tricks Seconds Candle

Author:Tim Vine

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

Writing Faith Inspiring Comedy Tricks Grammar English Grammar

Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“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.'”

Ifs Sticks Work Out Tricks Nails

Author:Shaun White

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

Bigs Rooms Air Judging Improvement Tricks Stylish Always Room For Improvement Room For Improvement

Author:Shaun White

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

Want Ends Tricks Circus

Author:Pharrell Williams

“It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'”

Thinking Knows Stills Might Know How Successful Records Honesty Easier Tricks Being Successful Relevant Stadiums

Author:Bono

“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.”

People Way Mind Has Beens Play Eye Faith Belief Change Challenges Strange Blessing Mindset Tricks Things Change

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.”

People Trying Advantage Tricks

Author:Christina Aguilera

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

People Way Different Laughing Tricks Different Ways Making People Laugh

Author:Vir Das

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

Inspirational Writing Beautiful Stuff Creativity Knowing Identity Filled Tired Tricks Cups Justification

Author:Ray Bradbury

“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.”

People Sin One Thing Media Stupid Ignorance Depends Painful Stupidity Lists Tricks Thrive Our Society Acceptable Posture Cardinals Satanic Satanism Satanist

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“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.”

Ifs Long Waiting Angel Miracle Dare Tricks Descent Radiance Long Wait

Author:Sylvia Plath

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

Play Night Quiet Tricks

Author:Bob Dylan

“I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.”

Two Play Kids Used Bits Pieces Brother Tricks Ties My Brother Cotton

Author:Jo Brand

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

Play Stories Memories Tricks Knees Unreliable

Book:Fall On Your Knees

Source: Fall On Your Knees

“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.”

“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.”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“[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?”

Ifs Thinking Play Whole Chance Wonder Boys Mom Dad Letting Go Phones Tricks Hey Going Away Chickens Telephones Hello Invited Spoil Catching Contagious Pox

Author:Bill Watterson

“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.”

Kind Views Conversation Tricks Mortals Combat Invitations Affront

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.”

Magic Tricks

Book:Like Life

Source: Like Life

“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.”

Knows Seems Might Answers Failing Ought Tricks Ashamed Colonels Catch 22 Important

Author:Joseph Heller

“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.”

“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”

Believe Light I Believe Lows Mirrors I Believe In Tricks

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“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.”

Thinking Want Looks Sometimes Stars Pleasure Grief Known Laughing Sky Crazy Sorrow My Friends Window Tricks Look Up Make Me Laugh Shabby

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

“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.”

Inspirational Feels Pain Life Is Joy Motivation Hurt Optimism Excuse Tricks Idiot Feeling Down

Author:Erica Jong

“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”

Life Faith Simple Simplicity Tricks Ceremony Plain And Simple Mettle Simple Faith Hollow Man

Author:William Shakespeare

“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.”

Should Two Able Three Cases Jokes Tricks Cards Trapped Hilarious Elevators Card Tricks

Author:Daniel Handler

“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.”

World Way Humor Attention Fool Easier Smart Arguing Tricks Pay Attention Eragon

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.”

Kind Art Light Humorous Tricks Sense Of Humor Search For Meaning Art Of Living Mans Search For Meaning

Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”

Giving Truth Stage Illusion Opposites Appearance Tricks Pleasant Pockets Disguise Magician Sleeves Menagerie

Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.”

Eye Balls Tricks

Book:Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.”

Knows Want Voice Wonder Glory Tricks Burning Bags Testament God Knows Fiery Wands Impulsive Matured Vehement Burning Bush Carnies

Author:Nick Cave

“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”

Self Seems Happiness Issues Identity Possibility Color Serious Balance And Love Tricks Intimacy Loathing Self Loathing Serious Issues Bright Colors Emotional Balance

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s your explanation…there!” I stabbed a finger dramatically towards the far corner of the room. Pathetic, really. I mean, talk about the oldest trick in the book. But it’s a good book, and the trick would have been cut from subsequent editions if it didn’t sometimes work.”

Ifs Needs Mean Has Beens Book Sometimes Eye Rooms Saws Cutting Fingers Corners Tricks Explanation Good Book Pathetic Diversion

Author:Stephen Fry

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