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“My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.”

Firsts Two Parent Magic Responsible Driving Tricks Two Things Magician Magic Tricks

Author:Fernando Alonso

“If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.”

Ifs Wells Life Is Tricks Live Well

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink.”

Looks Clothes Tricks Coats Mink

Author:Pierre Balmain

“Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.”

Men Trying Century Bird Machines Method Finals Tricks Flight Broke

Book:Who Goes There?: And Other Stories

Source: Who Goes There?: And Other Stories

“Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.”

Men Expected Tricks

Book:Jacob Riis revisited: poverty and the slum in another era

Source: Jacob Riis revisited: poverty and the slum in another era

“The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.”

Life Long Real Alive Tricks Live Life Staying Alive

Book:Since You Ask Me

Source: Since You Ask Me

“All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.”

Light Seems Spiritual Plans Draws Tricks Wilderness

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.”

Firsts May Mean Laughing Personality Tricks Mediums Cartoon Animation Novelty Aisle Pathos

Author:Walt Disney

“I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.”

May Century Theater Tricks Afternoon Vanishing Good Afternoon

Author:Orson Welles

“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.”

“I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored”

Ifs Way Trying Two Hard Play Used Certain Levels Hard Work Balls Tricks Experiments Dawn Tennis Score Target Sheer Dusk One On One Toiling Tennis Balls

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good but don't bet on it. It's one of the best films of the year.”

Years Film Tricks Harry Potter Potters Best Film Hogwarts

Author:Joel Siegel

“The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.”

Way Mind Seems Evolution Crosses Tricks Agents Stem Messy

Book:Society Of Mind

Source: Society Of Mind

“Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.”

World Two Sometimes Hands Faces Walks Flower Shadow Tricks Sickness Weed Ugliness Hand In Hand Tiptoes Shadow Of Death Health And Life

Author:Tiffany Baker

“Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side -- and but awaits our command.”

Ifs Knows Facts Life Is Sides Deals Tricks Command

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.”

Mean Littles Made Stills Feelings Kids Remember Saws Magic Universal Studios Tricks Grandfather Glimpse Little Kid My Grandfather Magic Tricks Universal Studios

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.”

Thinking Way Different Remains Oneself Tricks

Author:Jasper Johns

“No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.”

Want I Can Fun Can Do Safe Tricks Spots Having Fun

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.”

Knows Hate Failing Tricks

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future is not coming to you; it's coming through you...change your idea about the changes to come, even as you change your idea about the changes that have passed. Then you can change your experience of both.”

Knows Ideas Today Remember Turns Tomorrow Insight Tricks Our Future Your Future Foresight

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'”

Men Want Should Married Tricks Married Man

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. Cora was right - we had many families over time. Our family of origion, the family we created, as well as the gorups you moved thorugh while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.”

People World Giving Persons Sometimes Whole Perfect Blood Lovers Bigger Relation Stranger Tricks Be You Blood Relation

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

Thinking Years Different Form Five Imagine Heard Hundred Years Ago Cat Madness Stranger Tricks Likes Imagine That Yards Grey Present Day

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Enough Magic Stage Particular Ordinary Scientist Tricks Objectives Mortals Performers Arrogant Psychics Fooled Scrutiny Phony

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.”

Play Creatures Good Things Tricks Witness Crow Kitten Squirrels Playfulness

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.”

Form Jazz Tricks Collections Tag

Author:Ernest Newman

“The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.”

Believe Wells Has Beens Stupid Devil Tricks Very Stupid

Book:Canopus in Argos: Archives

Source: Canopus in Argos: Archives

“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.”

“Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.”

Ifs Mind Children Long War Turns Fool Waste Lays Tricks Dirty Sanity Rapids Imperatives Thorough Nuclear War Brainwashing Imbeciles Dirty Minds

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.”

Hell Angel Tricks Dirty Candle Mafia

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!”

Thinking World Littles Fighting Differences Stage Tiny Tricks

Author:David Giuntoli

“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”

Ifs Want Heart Stills Real Able Certain Suffering Loses Hurt Willing Amount Tricks Over You Good Life

Author:Will Smith

“Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.”

Kind Use Bigs Lines Perfect Written Land Definitions Debate Tricks Prose Poetry Is Topics Imagery Lyrical Dense

Author:Campbell McGrath

“Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.”

Knows Bigs Fun Know How Tricks

Author:Channing Tatum

“I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.”

Thinking Writing Song Term Listening Albums Tricks More Time Delivery Writing Songs Wordplay

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.”

Quality Paint Honestly Tricks Mediums Sensitive Inherent

Author:John French Sloan

“There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.”

Want Problem Walks Perseverance Tricks

Author:Janet Fish

“The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.”

Reason Enough Facts Tricks Fooled

Author:Darwin Ortiz

“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”

“It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence”

Violence Tricks Fancy Fright

Author:Richard Wilbur

“If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.”

Ifs Conditions Thousand Conversation Murder Tricks Contradiction Interruptions Stipulations

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.”

Persons Use Certain Views West Tricks Rejected Distasteful

Author:Malcolm X

“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.”

Ifs Dream Can Do Ability Possibility Infinite Tricks Rational Your Dreams Waking Infinite Possibilities Waking Life

Author:Richard Linklater

“History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.”

Long History Long Time Tricks Sleeves

Book:The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.”

People Said Sometimes States Picks Tricks Psychological Pockets Flattery Carelessness Charlatans Lulls Honest People

Book:How To Sell Your Way Through Life

Source: How To Sell Your Way Through Life

“The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.”

Ends Stories Happens Incredibles Things Happen Tricks Holmes

Author:Rex Stout

“Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.”

Firsts Stills Stories Lasts Courses Modern Tricks Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Rex Stout

“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”

Thinking Should Two Book Different Facts Attention Five Elements Six Paid Appearance Tricks Vain Propositions Geometry Algebra Obtaining Geometric

Author:Omar Khayyam

“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

Country Would Be Three Difficult Cities Knowing Four Demand Meetings Prepared Tricks Extras Afternoon Senate Twelve Friday Council Realised Reactionaries Julius Lunchtime Friday Afternoon

Author:Ken Livingstone

“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”

Ifs Use Logic Tricks

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein