Trick Quotes

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

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.

You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.

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.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

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

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

I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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?

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

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

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

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

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

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

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.

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

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.

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

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.