Canasta Quotes

#1. The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Mary McCarthy

#2. Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.

Albert H. Morehead

#3. There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Marilyn Monroe

#4. She's an old lady," Barron says. "And she's been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

Holly Black

#5. Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag - all the things one ought by now to be too old for - touch, whatever it is.

Renata Adler

#6. I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

Angela Lansbury

#7. The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul ... and life goes on.

Peggy Toney Horton

#8. It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.

R.K. Lilley

#9. When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other person you don't even know is truly a terrifying thingI wonder if love isn't a manifestation of madness in some way.

Gen Urobuchi

#10. Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

Joe Walsh

#11. And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Junot Diaz

#12. Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

Lynda Resnick