Top 67 Card Game Sayings
#1. Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
Paul Auster
#2. Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game!
Rashers Tierney
#3. What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
David Mitchell
#4. Mendeleyev was said to have modelled the table on the card game solitaire.
Bill Bryson
#5. My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#6. Talking to a programmer type about the trading business was a bit like talking to the house plumber at work in the basement about the card game the Mafia don was running upstairs.
Michael Lewis
#7. Someone would run a card game or set up a pachinko parlor or start a little protection racket. People would be bribed to do things or not do things. It was what happened when you put people together.
James S.A. Corey
#8. Life and relationships is like a card game, you have to learn different strategies, learn from your mistakes, always play to win, show no mercy, take chances, believe in yourself, and play hand after hand until you finally win the game.
Jonathan Burkett
#9. The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
Jim Morrison
#10. We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
Jean Genet
#11. Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.
Augusta Scattergood
#12. By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies.
Mary Page Keller
#13. Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
Louise Erdrich
#15. A Nonstandard Graph, Elements and Operations, a Card Game Dialect A combination of the Mold dialects and Sandwich graphs, backed by axiomatic math, creates a unique space of science and fantasy.
J.M.K. Walkow
#16. Among the games I did not develop myself, my most frequently played game is definitely "Doppelkopf," a traditional German card game; for more than 40 years now, I play it regularly with old school friends.
Klaus Teuber
#17. In the card game you don't know your card lucky for you or bad for you this is depend on your luck.
AbdulNasir
#18. Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.
Conor Oberst
#19. Give humanity a truly unlimited field, and it would fill it with Happy Meal toys and holographic sports-star, collectible trading card game art.
Charles Stross
#20. Rummy is one of the easiest of all card games to learn. More people understand the rules of Rummy than of any other card game.
Albert H. Morehead
#21. Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and manual dexterity. I won almost two whole talents before they stopped inviting me back to their games.
Patrick Rothfuss
#22. Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.
Tom Clancy
#23. After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not done since my ill-starred Tintagel honeymoon with Madame X.
David Mitchell
#24. If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.
Warren Buffett
#25. On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.
Satoru Iwata
#26. It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card.
Richard A. Knaak
#27. You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.
Dave Ramsey
#28. Every game has its Jacks,' she said, the sadness of it pulling down the elation of sudden understanding. 'The thing that acts as a wild card. It can't be counted on or predicted. A weapon, even. But he's in other places, too, isn't he? And do you know what else a Jack is, Puck? ... I do.
Ruth Frances Long
#30. Ender's Game is not simply a story of an exceptional child who must outwit aliens in order to save the human race - it is the story of an exceptional child who fears he is a monster and is tricked into doing something monstrous.
Orson Scott Card
#31. The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
Orson Scott Card
#32. It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game
John Carmack
#33. So why don't you go home?"
Dink smiled crookedly. "Because I can't give up the game." He tugged at the fabric of his flash suit, which lay on the bunk beside him. "Because I love this.
Orson Scott Card
#34. All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.
Orson Scott Card
#35. There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.
Orson Scott Card
#36. All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
Orson Scott Card
#38. Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.
Richard Louv
#39. Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the firm assurance that even though Ender never feels himself to belong,the reader knows he does belong, that he is the ultimate insider even though he stands outside.
Orson Scott Card
#40. I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
Orson Scott Card
#41. Am I just a game to you? The quiet crazy girl that you want to challenge yourself with? See if you can destroy my life so you can hang my card on your collection? Well get in line, buddy, because you're not the first.
Allie Brennan
#42. Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.
Anatol Rapoport
#44. All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew
up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling
point ... Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in
their face.
Eminem
#46. Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.
Albert H. Morehead
#47. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.
Orson Scott Card
#48. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.
Allan Dare Pearce
#49. Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you.
Orson Scott Card
#50. It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Ender's Game, page 111)
Orson Scott Card
#51. Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and relax, and enjoy a game of Tidly-Winks, the sound of a Pete Rose baseball card in the spokes of our bike, or maybe a nice slice of watermelon - with a sprinkle of salt.
Michael Buffalo Smith
#53. We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.
Orson Scott Card
#54. I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.
Lorrie Moore
#55. Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Adam McKay
#56. He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.
Orson Scott Card
#57. The power to kill is the only power that matters.
-Enders game.
Orson Scott Card
#58. 'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.
Orson Scott Card
#59. It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing
along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults went too far, tried too hard, and the children
could see through their game.
Orson Scott Card
#60. If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
Marisol Nichols
#61. It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
Daniel Dennett
#62. You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part of the lives and the memories of those people in a way that WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 or Windows can never be.
Orson Scott Card
#63. Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.
Orson Scott Card
#64. I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.
Michael Ian Black
#65. He lifted up another card and set it down before him. 'Priest of Life, hah, now that's a good one. Game's done.'
'Who wins?' the Adjunct, her face pale as candlewax, asked in a whisper.
'Nobody,' Fiddler replied. 'That's Life for you.' He suddenly rose, tottered, then staggered for the door.
Steven Erikson
#66. Nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!" ... so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!
Orson Scott Card
#67. It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.
Catherynne M Valente
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