Top 310 Cards Quotes

I said it’s impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don’t have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

I’m not saying that the action/science-fiction genre is bad in itself. I make those films. I’m just saying that the studios have put all their cards on black.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn’t believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn’t win thirty games.

It’s no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him – she was his mascot.

A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may – people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I’ll be happy.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, ‘Emily plays well alone.’

The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I’m pretty sure the second was a ‘Powers’ scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.

I love ‘House of Cards.’ I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.

When I was a kid, I collected a lot of cards from all different sports.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you’d go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

Life is a poker game, and everybody has to show their cards.

Deck of cards, I always have ’em with me. We love to play on the planes when we travel. If I’m bored, I play Spades, Tonk, I’m a huge Blackjack player. Stay out of the casino, though.

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You’d go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we’d play.

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn’t catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

No one lives on credit in France because banks don’t allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.

How can you compare ‘Hollywood Shuffle,’ financed through the director’s credit cards, and ‘Apocalypse Now?’ You have to take into consideration the conditions under which it was made.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

In my last year at Hallmark, we finally began putting verses on computer. It had been all in filing cabinets on index cards. They had to assign a 4 digit serial number to each sentiment, for each area of feeling.

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.

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.’

I’m usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they’ve aired. But I love ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Killing,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ loved ‘True Detective,’ and ‘Arrested Development’ when it was on. Also ‘The Wire,’ though I was way late to the game on that.

I was a stay-at-home mom, with an important job to raise the kids. I filled it into the occupation slot on innumerable immigration cards, looking at the officer with defiant pride. What was I then, now that actively raising my children was no longer my vocation?

‘House of Cards’ I’ve watched since the first day.

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

Actually, I believe in everything, including astrology and tarot cards. All of it is just another way for people to try and tighten the link to the spirits in our universe. I believe it exists for all people.

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently.

I hate to work with another performer who reads cards. The most guilty are the people who do only a few specials a year. You’d think with so few shows they could leam the lines.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later ’cause the cards are a different color.

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled – trapped in a hotel that we couldn’t check out of because we had no money to check out.

If I’m playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks’ face! We had all these small football cards – literally hundreds of them – and swapping them was the currency back then.

I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards.

Being a parent is the toughest thing I’ve ever done. But I’m not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I’m the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.

I didn’t plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote ‘House of Cards’ in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career – and mine has been all over the map – you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you’re dealt and play them.

I get up early, go to the coffee shop to play cards for a while.

‘Alice’ is effectively a story about a game of cards. ‘Through the Looking Glass’ is a story of chess.

So, I’m thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of ‘The Joker’ as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

David and I enjoy a relaxed meal around 8. We like to eat on the couch while we watch TV. Sometimes we channel-flip, but we also watch shows like ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Crown,’ or ‘Game of Thrones.’

I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I’ve never recovered.

I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement generally, there’s going to be a big drive for impeaching Obama. I don’t know if that’s the right move… We need to play our cards very carefully and beware of the mouse trap that Obama might be trying to set for us.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

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

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months’ worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

I don’t really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.