Quotes About Card Games

#1. There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

Edna O'Brien

#2. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank

#3. I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

Laura Marling

#4. Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

Michael Wilbon

#5. We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless card games, and I had pretended to be as moved as I had been the first time I uncovered it all myself, back in East Hampton.

Olivia Sudjic

#6. If you two keep fighting, you're going to get us all killed, and I have a lot more card games I need to lose.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

John C. Reilly

#8. Bridge is the king of all card games.

Bill Gates

#9. In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games ... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.

Tite Kubo

#10. 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

#11. I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family, I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

Jase Robertson

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.

Charles Stross

#15. He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

Orson Scott Card

#16. Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers.

Orson Scott Card

#17. 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

#18. The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

Jim Morrison

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

Orson Scott Card

#24. A man's idee in a card game is war

Finley Peter Dunne

#25. 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

#26. If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

Warren Buffett

#27. Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

Orson Scott Card

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Nancy Gibbs

#31. 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

#32. The computer is also not famous for having mercy.

Orson Scott Card