Top 230 Trick Quotes

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.

My kids won’t eat all whole-wheat pasta, so my trick is to mix some in with white pasta. Cook the whole-wheat for about a minute and a half before you add the white pasta.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

I like working with an actor who doesn’t do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

There’s no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

The trick of ‘Up’ was to balance the sad stuff with the silly stuff.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There’s really no trick to it.

The trick is to be there when it’s settled.

I’ve cracked my head open before; I’ve had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It’s a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you’re prejudiced against all races.

When you’re dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn’t just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that’s what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that’s what people need around the world.

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.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can’t be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn’t get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats’ Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row – they don’t have have a saying for being fooled three times!

I’m trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

I feel like it’s always important to curl your eyelashes. I always do when I wake up and you know you look tired, when you curl eyelashes and put mascara it makes such a huge difference, so that’s the trick that I always use.

Edge was part of my fascination with KISS and Cheap Trick and Queen, mixed with wrestling.

I don’t think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it’s inviting them to try and understand them… then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It’s a classic trick, but it’s human, and it allows characters to have more depth.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn’t learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they’re that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They’re tricky. You gotta let them live.

That’s the trick in this business: if you want longevity, just keep people guessing a little bit.

You can’t trick The Universe – it’s like Santa Claus that way.

The first trick I bought at Macy’s was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that’s my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn’t work.

I don’t know how long I’ll be trick or treating. Maybe I’ll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it’s ridiculous.

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car ‘in the window.’ Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window – it’s about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The trick is, in everything we do, there are things we love. And sometimes the things we love get us stuck. And it’s only if we let go of some of those things that we free the movie up to become greater.

I have a great agency! It’s definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.

People would say, ‘Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller,” and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I’ve gone on to other things, I’m really pleased that people enjoy it.

The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work – and I’ve forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up – the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don’t care about the people in those effects, there’s no impact.

It’s usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I’m one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other.

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I’m in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you’ve had, you can still love yourself.

I am not a big vitamin-taker. I have vitamin C during the winter, but eating lots of fruit and veg does the trick.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

I loved ‘SNL’ growing up, and I would trick my babysitter into letting me stay up to watch it. My family would rent Marx brothers’ movies and Monty Python episodes, and we watched ‘In Living Color’, ‘The State’, and ‘Strangers with Candy’.

Once you get a trick on film, it’s there forever.

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.

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

Apparently, I’m very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That’s why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That’s my party trick.

A trick I’ve learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.

I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.

I think the trick is to leave before everyone is sick of you!

I saw Cheap Trick play ‘In Color,’ and it was awesome.