Cards Quotes - Page 39

• Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

  Marisha Pessl

  Making Love, Library, Littles

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• The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

  Rick Riordan

  Flying, Levels, Rewards

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• Every plan is a house of cards.

  Holly Black

  House Of Cards, House, Plans

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• Where are you taking us?" Nico said. "You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls." "They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and—

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Army, Boys

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• Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Horse, Whiskey, Crooked

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.321, New Directions Publishing

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• Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Baseball, Gum

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• If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon

  Dave Barry

  Hilarious, Military, Believe

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• Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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• I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.

  Daniel Dennett

  Ideas, Space, Awards

  "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.

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• Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.

  Benny Binion

  Cutting, Gambling

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• No matter how much you may want to think of Holdém as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.

  Phil Hellmuth

  Thinking, Games, People

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• When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

  John Goodman

  Kids, Keys, Library

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• Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Library, Citizenship, Library Cards

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

  Isaac Asimov

  Pain, Believe, Names

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.330, Bantam

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• I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!

  Rita Rudner

  Money, Credit, Saving

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• Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

  Anne Rice

  Daughter, Mother, Pain

  "Anne Rice", www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2008.

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• If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

  David Belasco

  Writing, Ideas, Calling

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• Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

  Drake

  Play, Chess, Deck

  Song: Pound Cake

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• Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

  Toni Morrison

  Wall, Taken, Writing

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• That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

  George Hamilton

  Football, Europe, Yellow

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• That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course

  Trevor Brooking

  Football, Yellow, Firsts

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• Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

  Max Euwe

  Art, Home, Men

  "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld (p. 180), 1956.

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• Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Home, Car

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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