Tricky Quotes

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

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.

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.

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.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

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.

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.