Cards Quotes - Page 20

Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

Everyone has a different bump card and when it's up, it's up.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card.

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.

I had never really been around cards.

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.

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

A consolidation makes sense only if you can lower your overall interest rate. Many people consolidate by taking out a home equity line loan or home equity line of credit (HELOC), refinancing a mortgage, or taking out a personal loan. They then use this cheaper debt to pay off more expensive debt, most frequently credit card loans, but also auto loans, private student loans, or other debt.

You also need to understand that when you consolidate credit card debt into mortgage debt - like a home equity loan or a HELOC [ home equity line of credit ] - you're taking an unsecured debt and turning it into a secured debt.

When you default on a secured debt, the creditor takes the asset that backs up that debt. When you convert credit card debt to mortgage debt, you are securing that credit card debt with your home. That's a risky proposition.

You fall a bit behind on a credit card bill, your interest rate soars, your minimum payment rises, and you start falling more and more behind every month. You don't see an end. But you don't want to file bankruptcy either. What you can do - and should do - is negotiate.

Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.

You must be sure - and I mean absolutely positive - that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.

Once the settlement is completed, the credit card company will report it to the credit bureaus, which will then make a notation on your credit report that that account was paid by settlement. That's going to signal to future lenders that you left the last guy hanging. That's why, as with bankruptcy, debt settlement is an extreme option, one you shouldn't take lightly. It's not just an easy, cheap way to eliminate debt.

Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context.

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.

If I felt like not saying what was on the cue card, I would. We rarely did retakes.

When you walk into a store and you want to buy something, you give them cash and they sell it to you. But very often, you walk into our "store" and you want something - a credit card, maybe, or a loan - and very often the answer is "No," even if you're a large corporation.