Cards Quotes - Page 13

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records.

The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

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?'

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

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

My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.

I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

Eva [Braun] liked to write cards and letters, she spent a great deal of time on this. She had lovely writing, lovely sets of stationary and she spent hours a day on her correspondence, at least later on.

War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as though you were merely processing credit card applications. [Instead,] the information you're processing is that an incoming missile is 15 kilometers away, now 10 kilometers away, now 5 kilometers. You have to separate yourself psychologically from the fact that your mortal existence may well end. That is the ancient reality of war.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.