History Quote by David Mitchell

“cards. Twenty-four”

— Damian Harper

“Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.”

— Ray Zee

“He had a three on his forehead. Jay had a seven; Len had the queen of diamonds. Hank a ten, and David the queen…

— Heather Graham

“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you…

— Lev Grossman

“It wasn’t the bent, nasty, yellow laminated four-by-six card everyone else got but a real heavyweight plastic tag embossed with my name. Jenks had…

— Kim Harrison

“Essentially, he taught that it doesn’t make sense to upset ourselves about what is beyond our control. We don’t get a choice about what…

— Sylvia Boorstein

“Fill in the blanks, you’d have a novel; keep it short and it’s a play by Beckett.”

— Stephen Dobyns

“I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thread, a single moment of inattention could…

— Yōko Ogawa

“I was with a six-foot-four, athletic, angsty young man dressed in casual linen pants and matching fawn-colored shirt. Under it was a skintight two-piece…

— Kim Harrison

“Young men most needed experience. They could not play well if they trusted to a general rule. Every card had a relative value. Principles…

— Henry Adams

“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’ ‘Four.’ ‘And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?’ ‘Four.”

— George Orwell

“Children came running with their mothers' scissors, or the carving knife, or the paternal razor, or anything else that lacked an edge (except, indeed,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne