Top 1200 Deck Of Cards Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

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

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.

They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.

When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.

I train hard, but having a fight on the cards so often gives me targets and focus.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on the deck in my Air Jordans before I swam, I'd write 23 on my cap. I'm just a huge Jordan fan.

It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.

A top 100 single was never on the cards for me, really, like in my own head.

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

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

I collected baseball and football cards. My most valuable was probably a Mark McGwire rookie card.

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

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

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

The WB never treated us well, so we didn't expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards.

Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

I don't like thank you cards because I don't know what else to say. What do I put on the inside? See Front.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

I carry a small handbag and it has cash and credit cards, phones, hair ties and lip balm.

There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.

When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

I need to have the soul bank full as well as pay the credit cards and have a roof over my head.

The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

My mom was a teacher and my dad owned a small printing press where we printed visiting cards.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.

The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck - served by men in white jackets.