Quotes About Cards

The cards were scattered on the table, face up, face down, and they seemed to foretell that whatever we did to one another would be washed away by liquor or explained away by sad songs.

She may be a good whore, but she's no hand at cards.

Now the journey is ending, the wind is losing heart. Into your hands it's falling, a rickety house of cards. The cards are backed with pictures displaying all the world. You've stacked up all the images and shuffled them with words. And how profound the playing that once again begins! Stay, the card you're drawing is the only world you'll win.

Karta ksi??ki tylko wtedy jest co? warta, je?li mo?esz j? odwróci? i dojrze? za ni? ?ycie, które na ni? napiera gwa?tem i miesza wszystkie karty.

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Ace-king is a fine hand. Ace-queen is a little weaker, but still good. With ace-jack, you're already sliding rapidly down a slippery slope. With ace-ten, you've slid down the slope, fallen off the cliff, and lie in wreckage at the bottom with hands like ace-five and ace-six.

So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.

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.

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.

They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.

Probabilmente no, quindi ti lascio con un piccolo consiglio, dato che conosci tanto bene le carte. La vita è come loro. Vincere non consiste nell'avere una buona mano, ma nel giocarne bene una mediocre.

There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal.

I've got a Don Baylor, J.T. said. California sucks this year. Ralph snickered. I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

The only reason you hate your birthday is because people give you odd gifts, scary cards with weird messages in them, and because you're getting older. Anyway, Happy Birthday!

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.

They migrated to the usual room on the second floor. Heywood Broun was there by the door, setting up bottles of gin, scotch and beer. Alexander Woollcott sat ensconced behind the round table (not THE Round Table). He shuffled the cards and stacked up poker chips. Dorothy stopped in the doorway and watched what they were doing. 'You boys sure know how to treat a woman,' she said. 'Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

Sunrise is a necessary concomitant of long railway journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers upon which boats strain but make no progress.

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

Life is like a game of cards... the hand that is dealt you represents determinism, the way you play it is free will...

Life doesn't consist in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.. You just gotta live and learn..

Les levers de soleil sont un accompagnement des longs voyages en chemin de fer, comme les œufs durs, les journaux illustrés, les jeux de cartes, les rivières où des barques s'évertuent sans avancer.

Hey, did you hear about the lawyer who witnessed a car accident?" "Yeah, yeah. He handed out business cards and said, 'I saw the whole thing. I'll take either side,' Ã¢â'¬Â she replied. "I told you, I've heard them all.