#trick

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#bathroom #bills #care #embraced #expected

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. ↗

— Roger Stone

#favor #first #going #i #i remember

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me. ↗

— Marc Maron

#i #make #me #next #trick

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#achieve #continuation #dirty #love is #only

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#christmas time #dime #how #nickel #petitions

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#avenue #definitely #deity #feel #fifth

I stared at the phone in disbelief, then ripped a clean sheet of paper from my notebook. I scribbled ' Jerk ' on the first line. On the line beneath it I added, ' Smokes cigars. Will die of lung cancer. Hopefully soon. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#funny #humor #hush-hush #patch-and-nora #funny