#tricks

Love is a fine thing while it lasts, but rarely is it permanent ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#fine #lasts #life #love #never

He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#fairy #sue-bridehead #trickster #unrequited-love #love

[On marriage and permanent attachment:] Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#cleverness #deception #honesty #marriage #men

The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#long-term-relationships #marriage #vows #love

I’ll flick a penny to the dirt, and if I see one on the ground I won’t pick it up. So why is .99 cents so much sexier than a dollar?
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— Jarod Kintz

#currency #dirt #disrespect #dollar #gimmick

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#could #even #feeling #glimpse #got

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years. ↗

— Christian Bale

#bag #certainly #each #i #movie

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected. ↗

— Brad Bird

#couple #expect #expect the unexpected #going #got

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. ↗

— Robert Englund

#gag #horror #lets #modern #our