The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
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 picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts:. . . He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and a verb. 'He weeps,' and then there'd be whatever else. And a couple of collaborators of mine have always said that the first sentence of my script is for them, and everything else that comes after is for me. Which is true, that's very much how I try to write. The first line is just to get the physical action down, and then I'll kind of drift off into whatever else I see in my head and they can take it or leave it.
The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.
Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
When in doubt, win the trick.
WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.
I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.
I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.
An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.