Top 26 Quotes About Wild Cards
#1. Delicious ... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project.
Austin Grossman
#2. The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.
Patrick Dixon
#3. I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.
Koushun Takami
#4. It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
Walt Disney
#5. Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
Erica Jong
#6. I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.
Venus Williams
#7. screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache
Robin McKinley
#8. Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
Leonard Cohen
#9. What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle.
#11. After the play, he counts on playing cards,
and he on a wild night in some girl's arms -
why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools
so sorely try the Muses' kindness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. Let them say what they will. I can still fly.
- Earl Sanderson, Jr.
George R R Martin
#13. I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.
Tim Salmon
#14. Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.
Andy Roddick
#15. Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
Tim Cook
#17. When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
Allen West
#18. I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I had noticed that before to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. The only serious side-effect of # marijuana is that you might get arrested.
Alan Watts
#20. Yes. Oh, hell yes. I love you. Of course I'll marry you.
Jaci Burton
#21. Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.
Matisyahu
#22. Sometimes, people need you and it's so scary you push it away when actually you want it to be closer.
Jessica Thompson
#23. If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.
Cassandra Clare
#24. When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.
Chili Davis
#25. Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.)
Natalie Goldberg
