The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.
I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.
People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.
A miler's kick does the trick. . . A miler's kick does the trick.
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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. ” --Colonel Korn, Catch-22
It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical.
There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.
The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.