Poker Night Sayings

#1. Support your partner in their interests. You never know when batting practice, kung fu movie moves, or even a poker night might come in handy during a zombie infestation.

Jesse Petersen

#2. 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

#3. I love fairy tale retellings and mash-ups.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. A hawk reeled overhead with a rodent squirming in its beak, close enough so you could see the bird's black shiny eyes.

Mary Karr

#5. I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

#6. On a waste place strewn with bricks in the outskirts of a town twilight was falling. A star or two appeared over the smoke, and distant windows lit mysterious lights. The stillness deepened and the loneliness. Then all the outcast things that are silent by day found voices.

Lord Dunsany

#7. Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

Dale T. Mortensen

#8. I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

Trent Reznor

#9. I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

Maajid Nawaz

#10. And what of you?" At Auric's foolish question, I snickered. "You're asking the biggest manwhore if he remembered a possible one night stand, among dozens - " "Hundreds," my father interjected. " - that created me? Seriously?" "I didn't know who Muri's mother was, but she was mine.

Eve Langlais

#11. I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

Arne Duncan

#12. Oh, what a tangled web we weave,' " I intoned, " 'when first we practice to deceive.'

Diana Gabaldon

#13. We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

William Shakespeare

#14. And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed ... p146

Radclyffe Hall

#15. Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

Yvon Chouinard

#16. A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#17. We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#18. A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

A. J. Jacobs