Cards famous quotes

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
-- A. A. Gill

#Believe #Watches #Cards

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
-- A. E. Waite

#Tarot #Cards #Egyptian

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
-- A. E. Waite

#Fall #Hands #Cards

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
-- Adam Carolla

#Cards #Use #Credit

I am not a good cue card reader.
-- Adam Carolla

#Cards #Reader

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
-- Al Alvarez

#Gambling #Games #Cards

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.
-- Al Forman

#Humorous #Fans #Cards

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.
-- Albert Camus

#Laughing #Energy #Cards

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
-- Albert Camus

#Hypocrisy #House #Cards

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
-- Alex Comfort

#Naughty #Cards #Credit

I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?
-- Alex Tabarrok

#Giving #Choices #Cards

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
-- Alexander Pope

#Age #Cards #Youth

Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
-- Alexander Pope

#Women #Play #Cards

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.
-- Alison Sweeney

#Christmas #Christmas Card #Cards

The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.
-- Amelie Mauresmo

#Feelings #Cards #Asking

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.
-- Amor Towles

#Decision #Vision #Cards

I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
-- Andrea McLean

#Needs #Cards #Use

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.
-- Andrew Jackson

#Gun #Jugs #Cards

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.
-- Andrew Tobias

#Risk #Cards #Credit

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
-- Andrew Young

#Hands #Land #Cards

Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.
-- Andy Roddick

#Play #Waiting #Cards

In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the most miraculous, spectacular things. But there's a time to learn, a time to lead and a time to leave.
-- Andy Stern

#Years #President #Cards

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.
-- Ann Romney

#Cards #Goes On #Deals

Innovation is the calling card of the future.
-- Anna Eshoo

#Innovation #Cards #Calling

Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.
-- Anna Howard Shaw

#Valentine #Cards #Cookies

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.
-- Anne Rice

#Vampire #Cards #Helping

I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.
-- Anne Taintor

#Perfect #Messages #Cards

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands.  The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.
-- Anthony Holden

#Hands #Two #Cards

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.
-- Artie Lange

#Play #Cards #Fine

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.
-- August Bier

#Cancer #Library #Cards

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.
-- Barack Obama

#Three #Cards #Credit

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Sex #Cards #Calling

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
-- Bear Grylls

#Good Luck #Cards #Expeditions

Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
-- Bel Kaufman

#Real #Cheater #Cards

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
-- Benny Binion

#Cutting #Cards

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Holiday #Guy #Cards

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
-- Bess Truman

#Book #Different #Cards

They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.
-- Bill Janklow

#Pushing #Cards #Looks

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.
-- Bill Janklow

#Cards #Machines #Credit

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
-- Bill Russell

#Oakland #Library #Cards

It's cool to actually have my own trading card.
-- Blake Griffin

#Basketball #Cards #Trading

A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.
-- Bob Phillips

#Add #Cards #Cost

He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!
-- Bobby Heenan

#Wrestling #Cards #Looks

Haven't you ever played Uno?... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
-- Brad Meltzer

#Winning #Cards #Sometimes

It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.
-- Bruce Forsyth

#Good Night #Play #Cards

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Fake #Cards #Firsts

Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that this rating only applied if the computer was not attached to a network and had no network card, and had its floppy drive epoxied shut, and was running on a Compaq 386. Solaris's C2 rating was just as silly.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Running #Silly #Cards

It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Cards #Matter #Flaws

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Cheating #People #Cards

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
-- Camilo Jose Cela

#Cards #Debt

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
-- Carl Hubbell

#Winning #Cards #Want

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.
-- Chad Knaus

#Cards #Pants #Crew

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
-- Charles Fort

#Cards #World #Parlor

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.
-- Charles Kendall Adams

#Cards #Problem #Deals

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
-- Charles Kennedy

#Feet #Pockets #Cards

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
-- Charles Lamb

#Play #Age #Cards

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.
-- Charles M. Schulz

#Funny #Cards #Gum

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
-- Cheech Marin

#Cards #Movement #Resistance

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.
-- Chili Davis

#Yankees #Champion #Cards

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.
-- Chris Daughtry

#Skins #Cards #World

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.
-- Chris Matthews

#Islamic #Iraq #Cards

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.
-- Chris Powell

#Jail #Needs #Cards

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.
-- Chris Rock

#People #Cards #Credit

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Play #Cards #Impossible

The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I’ll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando’s
-- Christopher Poole

#People #Fans #Cards

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Lucky #Cards #Said

As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. That’s who he is; that’s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bitten—so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it.
-- Claudia Gray

#Father #Hands #Cards

Lucas seemed to have realized our prediciment at the same moment I had. "I haven't got my credit card with me. Kinda left in a hurry. We just spent the only cash I had in my pocket." Too-bright signs from the few open stores made mee squint. "We'd have been better off with a slingshot and Oreos.
-- Claudia Gray

#Pockets #Oreos #Cards

If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.
-- Colin Morgan

#Magic #Balls #Cards

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
-- Cory Doctorow

#Feelings #Cards

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
-- Count Basie

#Names #Would Be #Cards

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
-- Craig Ferguson

#Evil #Cards #Tonight

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.
-- Craig Kilborn

#Wife #Gold #Cards

Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stand-alone graphics card; then it's going to be a stand-alone graphics chip; and then part of that's going to get integrated into the main CPU.
-- Craig R. Barrett

#Cards #Way #Stand Alone

Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.
-- Craig Watts

#Thinking #Cards #Credit

In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand.
-- Craig Watts

#Hands #Cards #Way

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
-- Cyril Connolly

#Memories #Cards #Literature

Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
-- Damien Hirst

#Cards #Credit #Hitting

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.
-- Daniel Yergin

#Oil #Cards

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116
-- Darren Shan

#Destiny #Towers #Cards

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards
-- Darwin Ortiz

#Rabbits #Cards #Business Card

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
-- David Belasco

#Writing #Ideas #Cards

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.
-- David Blaine

#Mother #Tarot #Cards

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
-- David Blaine

#Math #Cards #Looks

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
-- David Copperfield

#Cards #Deck Of Cards #Stage

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.
-- David Dreman

#Perception #Cards #Division

January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions.
-- David Keating

#Strong #Cards #January

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.
-- David Lynch

#Simple #Ideas #Cards

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
-- David Mitchell

#Liars #Games #Cards

Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.
-- David Robertson

#Winning #Signatures #Cards

Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.
-- David Sklansky

#Hands #Play #Cards

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.
-- Dean Ornish

#Cards #Answers #Medical

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.
-- Dennis Hughes

#Technology #Cards #Credit

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Humorous #Cards #Records

Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division.
-- Derek Jeter

#Winning #Fans #Cards

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
-- Diane Chamberlain

#Play #Cards

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.
-- Doug McClure

#Sound #Cards #Hallmark

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.
-- Doyle Brunson

#Cards #Loser #Winner

Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.
-- Doyle Brunson

#Eye #Cards #May

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and ***** wanna play chess now
-- Drake

#Play #Cards #Chess