Tricky Quotes

Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

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.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

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

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

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

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

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

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

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Working in TV and navigating success is a tricky thing. It's easier to navigate the hard work of starting out because you just do anything they let you do, but once you get into an orbit, after the thrusters have pushed you into the orbit, now you have to navigate that orbit. There's no choices when you're starting out. You're just like, "Please, let me do anything." But then it turns around and it's like, "We'll let you do anything".

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

I find it tricky to make plans.

Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.

Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

Working with Roman Polanski is funny. It's like anything in life - someone warns you that something's going to be amazing or difficult or awful, and you say, "I can do that. I can cope with that." And then when you're in the middle of it, it may be joyful or tricky, but it's never difficult in the way you think it's going to be difficult.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.

As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

I don't like menswear that's too tricky, and I wanted to take a lot of inspiration from myself and really only do things that I like. I don't like chinos, but I do like dress pants and jeans, so we do them. It's pretty straightforward, and just a matter of doing the right products.

It can be tricky with branding these days, because everything is kind of branded.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

A novel is a tricky thing to map.