Playing Cards Quotes

23 quotes by 20 authors

• 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… — Elayne Boosler
• Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the… — Toni Morrison
• I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from… — Peter van Inwagen
• What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that… — Edward Albee
• If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win. — Carl Hubbell
• Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We… — Joe Perry
• I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic. — Ricky Jay
• 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I… — Joshua Foer
• Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza.… — Joshua Foer
• I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in… — Jack Kerouac
• Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for… — Ernest Hemingway
• Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. — Guillaume Apollinaire
• There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. — Charles Fort
• To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits… — Joshua Foer
• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a… — Phylicia Rashad
• I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the… — Joyce Carol Oates
• The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and… — Daniel Handler
• Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for… — Carson McCullers
• You are playing cards with three Jeffs. One is your father, one is your brother, and the other is your current boyfriend. All of them… — Richard Siken
• Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room. — Henry Youngman

Who Wrote These Playing Cards Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 23 Playing Cards Quotes as follows:

• 3 Playing Cards Quotes by Joshua Foer
• 2 Playing Cards Quotes by Vikrant Parsai
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Elayne Boosler
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Toni Morrison
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Peter van Inwagen
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Edward Albee
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Carl Hubbell
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Joe Perry
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Ricky Jay
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Jack Kerouac
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Ernest Hemingway
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Charles Fort
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Phylicia Rashad
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Daniel Handler
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Carson McCullers
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Richard Siken
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Henry Youngman
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by DeNali
• 1 Playing Cards Quote by Joyce Carol Oates