Quotes About Cards

#1. By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.

Evan Osnos

#2. I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative and making things. But a better credit crunch idea is to not even bother sending cards.

Konnie Huq

#3. I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

Anthea Turner

#4. I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

Bob Dylan

#5. If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

Ron Livingston

#6. At the sight of a Sanza brother offering cards, every guard in the room took a step back; some of them visibly struggled with the idea of raising their crossbows again.

Scott Lynch

#7. Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles

#8. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.

Nicola Yoon

#9. Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

Penelope Gilliatt

#10. When I look at my books I feel like Alice in the closing pages of Wonderland, when the cards all rise up and overwhelm her.

Linda Grant

#11. We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

Tim Stevens

#12. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Bobby Fischer

#13. Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

Milton Berle

#14. Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources

Mathis Wackernagel

#15. You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

George Michael

#16. You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because' cards. They can't even ask you why you did it.

Brian Regan

#17. I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

Oliver Kahn

#18. She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

Louise Fletcher

#19. I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

John Oliver

#20. I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Frank Langella

#21. Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

George Eliot

#22. I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

Jenny Offill

#23. You can't change the cards you were dealt, but you can always choose how you play your hand.

Derek Hough

#24. Sonny was a spiky ray of light to those lucky enough to be close to him, but life had taught him to play his cards close to his chest.

Garrett Leigh

#25. I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Bear Grylls

#26. Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

Mark Bradford

#27. For every person that says, 'I love your work, and my daughter thinks you're great, and we watch all your movies,' and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, 'Who are you? What's your name? Are you on 'House of Cards'?'

Anna Kendrick

#28. Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

Joshua Foer

#29. When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.

Chris Rock

#30. There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

Stanislaw Ulam

#31. Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jack London

#32. Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

Brian Skerry

#33. Right, 'the Queen of Hearts.' Sounds to me like you're just one bitch in a whole pack of cards, baby.

Elle Lothlorien

#34. I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#35. The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

Augusten Burroughs

#36. When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Camilo Jose Cela

#37. I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

Henry Selick

#38. One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

Ugo Mochi

#39. Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow

Charles Dickens

#40. He wasn't playing with a full deck of cards.

Kurt Vonnegut

#41. My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

Alison Moyet

#42. I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#43. Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

Fanny Brice

#44. Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.

Brandon Sanderson

#45. They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#46. Someone stole my wallet last week. The guy called me up and he was mad at me. He was like 'you gotta get your finances together. You got no cash, your credit cards are maxed out. You don't even have minutes on your calling card. I had to use my card to call you.'

Mike Birbiglia

#47. We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Stefan Molyneux

#48. I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

Jack Kerouac

#49. My memories are like a shuffled deck of cards, each one coming up at random.

Brian James

#50. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world - and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

Penn Jillette

#51. People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

Charles E. McKenzie

#52. Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Julian Baggini

#53. I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

Margaret Thatcher

#54. I can do one 'Breaking Bad' in a night, or one 'Game of Thrones.' But 'House of Cards,' I can really do three in a night. I get sucked in.

Alysia Reiner

#55. Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

Joe Maddon

#56. No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.

Andrew Barrett

#57. Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.

Howard Rheingold

#58. I watch 'House of Cards,' which was great. I don't watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it.

Joanne Kelly

#59. I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

George Saunders

#60. How's your dance card look?" "Double-check your century Jules. No dance cards." Jules shrugged & gave me his most flirtatious smile.

Amy Plum

#61. Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#62. Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl!

Melanie

#63. Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#64. I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home.

Brett Dalton

#65. If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Andy Kaufman

#66. I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

Marco Rubio

#67. Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

Apolo Ohno

#68. Daughter
A sprinkle of sparkle,
A dazzle of sweet,
A flutter of cute,
From your head to your feet.

Hallmark Cards

#69. I don't claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it, Doc said.

Larry McMurtry

#70. Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks ... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

Thomas Boswell

#71. break his leg if he was not very careful. "Watch out for the girl with freckles," he said, referring to the ball, "and for the one with hepatitis, and the one covered in blood," alluding to the yellow and red cards of the referee.

Anonymous

#72. You'd get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You'd resist the temptation to dabble. You'd make more good decisions and you'd make more big decisions.

Warren Buffett

#73. Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

H. G. Bissinger

#74. She may be a good whore, but she's no hand at cards.

Diana Gabaldon

#75. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Brittany Hawes

#76. Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way.

Marty Rubin

#77. So when my cards are side of... I'm losing I need to suicide??

Deyth Banger

#78. He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, 'Ars gratia pecuniae.' Translated, it meant, 'Art for money's sake.

Kliph Nesteroff

#79. Courage - and shuffle the cards.

George MacDonald Fraser

#80. Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, ... Look at what you have now.

Barbara Delinsky

#81. This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

Dennis Hughes

#82. Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you'll often get double the manufacturer's warranty. You're also not immediately out your own money if something goes wrong.

Jean Chatzky

#83. Write more thank-you cards, but draw fewer swastikas on them.

Michael Ian Black

#84. Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Josh Billings

#85. I'd even had business cards made up reading, ABIGAIL COOPER, P.I. with teeny-weeny little letters underneath in parentheses spelling out PSYCHIC INTUITIVE. Most people think I'm trying to be clever. The truth is, I'm a chickenshit.

Victoria Laurie

#86. With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

Robin Wright

#87. To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.

Mark Doty

#88. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

Markus Zusak

#89. My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

Nandan Nilekani

#90. Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary card.

Stephan Pastis

#91. My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know ... You break it, you buy it.

Emo Philips

#92. We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

Pope Francis

#93. True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay

#94. Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

Kathleen Peacock

#95. Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

Haruki Murakami

#96. No matter what happens - never give up a hole ... In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

Sam Snead

#97. When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

Rex Smith

#98. People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

Charles Duhigg

#99. She knew the way of things. She knew if
you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole
world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.
Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard
beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and
wine. . . .

Patrick Rothfuss

#100. This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!

Ransom Riggs