Top 230 Trick Quotes

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.
Kevin Mitnick
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining a certain standard that does the trick.
Mani Ratnam
That became a big time in comic books because it’s when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
Todd McFarlane
I always tell people there’s only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn’t have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
Bill Bryson
My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I’m just nosey.
Nadine Velazquez
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
Tom Petty
People think that jumping or do trick shot is gifted. Yes, it’s gifted but is a lot of work. I won’t say I work on the trick shot, but it’s like I think physically I’m one of the best.
Gael Monfils
Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.
Steven Levy
What’s the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it’s always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that’s what it takes – and then you can write villainous characters.
Brian Azzarello
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of th

You have to find it in the moment, and that’s one of the challenges of being an actor – especially a film actor – is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There’s no trick to it. You just have to do.
Aaron Stanford
The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.
Mark Helprin
The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
Mark Romanek
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it’s a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
Jonathan Lethem
I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It’s a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they’re matte.
Lou Doillon
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard.
Richard Russo
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
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It’s an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay
I think, at some point, all of us – I’m gonna speak personally, not for everybody else – you’re gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it’s a really good trick, everybody’s still gonna appreciate it.
Chris Stapleton
I’m trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don’t know if I’ve quite stumbled upon it just yet.
Brittany Murphy
The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren’t the tricky part. If you’re involved in what’s going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you’re not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.
Jason Blum
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
Simon Sinek
I’m not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I’d spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.
Julia Glass
The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
Michael Ritchie
No trick or treaters came to my house for Halloween. For some reason, people around here are scared of me.
Glenn Danzig
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Hesiod
Undereye patches are genius. From traveling, I get really puffy under my eyes. Klorane Smoothing and Relaxing Patches are a great ten-minute trick to look refreshed. They’re perfect for moms running on no sleep.
Lily Aldridge
Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.
Ajit Pai
People often ask how my hair has that supreme fullness even at midnight. Here’s a trick that one of our Fox News stylists taught me: Backcomb your hair just at the crown for height, and then put a large velcro roller there and wear it for as long as you can. I keep rollers in until showtime.
Harris Faulkner
The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is not to take it too seriously – it’s all about having fun.
Twiggy
Catfish’s mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it ‘blackened’ Cajun style on so many restaurant menus – a trick which soon became a tired cliche.
Tom Douglas
I’m a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn’t study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
Jon Favreau
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
Manny Farber
I use these senses – touch, sight, feel and smell – as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I’ve written an entire chapter about this in my book, ‘The Successful Novelist.’ I’ve lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.
David Morrell
No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that’s going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.
Rob Dyrdek
This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she’s limping, and she’s still living, but she doesn’t look at me like she knows. She’s not thinking what I’m thinking. It’s a cruel trick that we all know the ending.
Albert Brooks
I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I’m constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don’t work too hard and get exhausted.
A. R. Rahman
There are a lot of things that I love, but if you’re just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over… So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you’re in situations with the people who make you happy and when you’re not.
Rebecca De Mornay
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?
Richard Dawkins
There isn’t a single human being who hasn’t plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
Dorothy Dix
Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, an

Bun E.’s a member of the band, but he’s not touring, and he’s not recording… We’ve had our differences, but we’re all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.
Robin Zander
I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it’s two inches outside left, but it’s actually two inches outside right.
Johnny Miller
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
Dick Cavett
For me, I live for performing live because people look at magicians on television, and they always wonder, ‘Is it a camera trick?’ ‘Is it a stooge?’ whereas, live, they know there’s no set-ups; there’s no stooges.
Keith Barry
I don’t think it’s good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery – of relationships and life in general – is to learn to live with the bits you don’t like.
Helen Mirren
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made – and that’s a tricky balance.
Alex Winter
Making films is sort of like you’re pulling off a magic trick. It’s sort of like an illusion. It’s not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you’re wearing to the make-up, to the light.
Jeff Bridges
It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
John Vane