Cardtables Quotes

#1. You're an unpopular man. Memorable-but remarkably unpopular. You have no friends, for instance, in Brooklyn. Around Henry Street, say, where old women sit on the stoops in their aprons and men play dominoes on cardtables by the curb.

James Sallis

#2. I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told.

Sherman Alexie

#3. I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#4. I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

Alan Shearer

#5. I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

#6. The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself, not one you bought, not one you were given. Your own hat, for your own head. Your own future, not someone else's.

Terry Pratchett

#7. You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

Frank Shorter

#8. We're the first people of the Western Hemisphere. American history doesn't start with Plymouth Rock; it starts with our ancestors. Others might call us "wetbacks," but we've had 40,000 years to dry out.

Mario T. Garcia

#9. We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

Robert Cormier

#11. I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

Roy Oswalt