Card Quotes And Sayings

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Card Quotes And Sayings


“What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one’s cards face up on the table?”
– Jacques Lacan

“Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it’s smart to notice. But what’s squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.”
– Jane Bryant Quinn

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru

“We don’t have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.”
– Jay Chiat

“The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn’t in the cards, I guess.”
– Jeanette MacDonald

“One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they’re voting on hunger issues.”
– Jeff Bridges

“Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers’ Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.”
– Jeffrey Kluger

“I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don’t know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, ‘Okay, I’m white trash.’”
– Jennifer Tilly

“I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that’s somehow there’s always a journey to go on. There’s always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.”
– Jeremy Northam

“The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.”
– Jerry Saltz

“The way the credit cards were made in the ’80s to be a people‘s form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that’s the way stocks are.”
– Jim Cramer

“I know a baseball star who wouldn’t report the theft of his wife’s credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.”
– Joe Garagiola

“That’s why I really don’t play cards or gamble. Because I’d crack.”
– Joe Mantegna

“These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.”
– John Shadegg

“If you spend any time in Washington you’ll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.”
– Jonah Goldberg

“I like to think I play rugby as it should be played – there are no yellow or red cards in my collection – but I cannot say I’m an angel.”
– Jonny Wilkinson

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
– Josh Billings

“‘Moonwalking with Einstein’ refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.”
– Joshua Foer

“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

“The best memorizers in the world – who almost all hail from Europe – can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the ‘four-minute mile of memory.’”
– Joshua Foer

“To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.”
– Joshua Foer

“That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can’t go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That’s when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.”
– Joshua Micah Marshall

“Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they’re handed, and that seems courageous to me.”
– Judith Guest

“I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do.”
– Katy Perry

“I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that’s not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I’ve worked really hard. I opened the store myself.”
– Kim Kardashian

“In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.”
– King Farouk

“Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.”
– Lara St. John

“I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I’ve never found a better system.”
– Lawrence Wright

“I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.”
– Lee Ryan

“Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”
– Les Brown

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