Card Reader Quotes

#1. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

John Niven

#2. I am not a good cue card reader.

Adam Carolla

#3. Her heavy breathing echoed off the thick walls, her body frozen in shock, but when Marik reappeared in the mouth of the cave, she reached for the sword. He was still in a state of bloodlust and was, what she could only describe as, stalking her.

Kiersten Fay

#4. Let's see.' She fiddles with her terminal and the room card reader. 'You're in 403 and 404. Have a nice day.'
I hand Persephone the Forbidden Room card and keep Room Not Found for myself. She looks at me oddly.

Charles Stross

#5. Wait! Wait!" The beggar called out from behind her. "I can see! I'm healthy!" Hilda smiled to herself, pleased. "You just took away my livelihood! Do you have any idea how hard it is out here for a healthy beggar?" The man sounded almost angry.

J.L. Langland

#6. To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.

Rajneesh

#7. We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Carlos Castaneda

#8. There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.

Thomas Perry

#9. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Sam Kinison

#10. Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

Rex Murphy

#11. During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

Rachel McAdams

#12. Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

Richard Whately

#13. 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

#14. In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

Radhanath Swami

#15. Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

Steve Earle

#16. Yet even the most hackneyed, shopworn science fiction or fantasy tale will feel startling and fresh to a naive reader who doesn't know the milieu is just like the one used in a thousand other stories.

Orson Scott Card

#17. In times of need, you will know the souls who love you.

Lailah Gifty Akita