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Cards Quotes (page 12)

My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten year? time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop. William Gibson
And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time."- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Ch. 15 Orson Scott Card
He deals the cards to find the answer. The sacred geometry of chance. The hidden law of a probable outcome. The numbers lead a dance. I know that the spades. Are the swords of a soldier. I know that the clubs are weapons of war. I know that diamonds. Mean money for this art. But that's not the shape of my heart Sting
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four..."
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left. Fyodor Dostoevsky
With Jason I thought I'd finally played my cards right, and now I'm just one more of thosebroken, sad people out there, figuring out a year in advance where they can have Easter and. Christmas dinner without feeling like a burden or duty to others, cursing the quality of modernmovies because it's so hard to fill weeknights with movies when they're all crap, and waiting, justwaiting, for those three drinks a night to turn into four - and then, well, then I'll be applying mymakeup in the... Doug Coupland
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. Steven Wright
-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table. Tennessee Williams
He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book to any page, or look at a person's hand; one could turn a card, or watch the flight of birds... whatever the thing observed, one could find a connection with his experience of the moment. Actually, it wasn't that those things, in themselves, revaled anything at all; it was just that people, looking at what was ocurring around them, could find a means of penetration to the Soul... Paulo Coelho
If you're goingto play cards, you should ask Burke to join you," Adelia put in. "Then maybe Keeley, Erin and I can find something equally foolish to do with our evening."Good idea. More wine, Brian?" Keeley lifted the bottle, cocked a brow. The purr in her voice was subtle, but he heard it. And suffered. Nora Roberts
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..."You..."
Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..."You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means. Charles M. Schulz
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost. Evelyn Waugh
Craig Ferguson quote: "That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring..."
That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil. Craig Ferguson
We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264) Julia Cameron
The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on it. On the back, in a lighter red, was a map that showed exactly where the cafe was located. He asked the receptionist to translate the name of the place. The clerk laughed and said it was called Fire, Walk With Me. Roberto Bolano
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape? Neil Gaiman

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