Quotes About Solitaire

#1. Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

James Salter

#3. Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.

Tony Lema

#4. I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits.

Tyne Daly

#5. I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.

Tabatha Coffey

#6. I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

Kirk Douglas

#7. I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

Johnny Galecki

#8. Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Joyce Maynard

#9. Then, at the woman's flicker of disappointment, he realized he was turning down a date with a pretty lady because he wanted to play yet another game of solitaire with Jim Beam. I'm getting to be an old man, he thought, with a start.

Sara King

#10. And I had the most disconcerting sensation: that in my memory she would look up from that game of solitaire and the sockets of her eyes would be empty.

Anne Rice

#11. One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

John Steinbeck

#12. watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#13. Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag - all the things one ought by now to be too old for - touch, whatever it is.

Renata Adler

#14. You're playing solitaire with no aces in the deck, and you can't figure out why you never win.

Craig Schaefer

#15. Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams - either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#16. I guess I didn't have a lot of friends, so that's what made videogames so important. They played back. I could do them myself. Solitaire can't surprise you; there's no AI. But videogames play back with you.

Tim Schafer

#17. Mendeleyev was said to have modelled the table on the card game solitaire.

Bill Bryson

#18. No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

James Lovelock

#19. Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they've accomplished something significant - which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man's clothes stretching ahead of them.

Christina Baker Kline

#20. Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee's smoke break.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#21. I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.

Skylar Laine

#22. I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

Morgan Freeman

#23. Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again.

Patricia Hampl

#24. We're not playing solitaire out here.

Bill Parcells

#25. My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#26. What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

Jennifer Gilmore

#27. Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance.

Denise Levertov

#28. I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

Margaret Drabble

#29. It can't be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire.

Terry Pratchett

#30. I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

Alex Trebek

#31. I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.

Maureen McCormick

#32. It can play solitaire and minesweeper, replied Artemis innocently.

Eoin Colfer

#33. Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

Henry Winter

#34. In any perfect relationship men should remember it's a matter of direction; she takes what's right and you take what's left.

Solitaire Parke

#35. Take them and claim their deaths as your reclamation to life.

Solitaire Parke

#36. Knowledge is power, wisdom is power with a purpose.

Solitaire Parke

#37. Fill me I'm cold. Fill me I'm half way gone.
Would you crush me in the stairwell?
Could we just lie down?

Deborah Landau

#38. I don't know why you won't even look me in the eye. I don't understand anything you're doing or saying, and it's killing me, because I already don't undestand a single thing about me or Michael or Becky or my brother or anything on this shitty planet.

Alice Oseman

#39. Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

Edward Abbey

#40. Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

Charlotte Bronte

#41. Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?

David Mitchell