Cards Quotes - Page 24

• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  Ocean, Passion, Wind

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.69

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• The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Play, Different, Looks

  Alastair Reynolds (2009). “Revelation Space”, p.235, Hachette UK

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• If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.

  Terence McKenna

  Games, Play, Clubs

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• If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Play, Ems

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• I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can't use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?

  Jeff Jarvis

  New York, Ku Klux Klan, Wikileaks

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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

  Bob Goff

  People, Way, Treats

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jun 28, 2015

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• On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.

  Emilio Rivera

  Hate, Play, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate my Visa card but have to use it for diesel, insurance and big items. I prefer paying by cash whenever possible because that way I feel as if I've got a better grasp on what I'm spending.

  Geoff Capes

  Hate, Use, Cash

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I made some films and thought about films, but then I went into writing. Becket is something that's definitely on the cards. We have to see where that fits in the schedule, because it's a big picture and I have a lot of writing obligations at the moment. I'm wary of anything with a budget over a certain amount.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Kids, Blood

  Source: collider.com

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• With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be a national registry of Muslims, that we ought to looking into Muslims having to carry government ID cards that state their religion, now, the word fascist is being used to describe this ascending and leading Republican politician.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Government, Presidential

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• Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Bridges, People

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• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Sweet, Memorable, Writing

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• Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Ecosystems, Apples

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• There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

  Bill Gates

  Phones, Numbers, Long

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.

  Avicii

  Thinking, Pockets, Bags

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

  Henny Youngman

  Two, Fifty, Rooms

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• I'm going out with these old guys. One guy gave me a hickey and left his teeth in my neck. Another man, we were having a perfectly lovely dinner; he looked up and me and went: You're not my wife! Another guy died during dinner. I had to go in his pocket to get the American Express card. Then you wonder: What would he tip? Another guy said: I want you to meet my family, and took me to the cemetery.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Wife, Guy

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Book, Responsibility

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Fire, Wife

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.189, Rodale

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• Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even conservatives are coming around. 30 percent of them now believe Obama deserves a Green Card.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Green, Popularity

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• My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered.

  Demetri Martin

  Balance, Credit, Outstanding

  Twitter post from Apr 21, 2012

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• 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

  Jobs, Kids, Grandmother

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• I'm totally normal in every respect, but I have this one quirk - I can't give out a number without laughing. It's a problem when I'm giving my credit card number over the phone because they always think: 'He must have just stolen it.'

  Emo Philips

  Thinking, Phones, Numbers

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• You might be a redneck if you need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Tattoo, Redneck, House

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