#trick

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. ↗

— Simon Callow

#hours #just #practising #spent #such

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. ↗

— James Joyce

#ireland #sober #stiff

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappear #fulfill #magic #make #people

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#allows #american #american people #country #go

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

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

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#exceptional #into #political #tactic #trick

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ↗

— Vernon Law

#learn #learning #never #people #some

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#any #debate #doing #head #i

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #because #harder #make #me