#trick

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. ↗

— Tony Blair

#another #bit #creative #even #gets

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#inspirational-quotes #tricks #inspirational

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#monsters-of-men #patrick-ness #todd-hewitt #viola-eade #men

War makes monsters out of men. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#chaos-walking #patrick-ness #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #men

And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter - not to make him feel like a fool who had fallen for a trick, but rather because he had said, 'you had better luck with matches,' when in fact I had not. It was not the matches that brought him across the street. It was the matches that kept him on the bench. ↗

— Adam Levin

#meeting #trick #tricking #inspirational

You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. ↗

— Strickland Gillian

#literacy #love #mother #quote #reading

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#become #camera #carry #else #front