Top 1200 Playing Cards Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

I used to hear all these guys on 78s at my mother's when I was a teenager... I used to daydream that I was onstage playing the solos; I'm playing with B.B. King, and I'm playing with Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy McCracklin. And I literally ended up being in a band that backed them up at different clubs.

I'm me, and I've got the cards that I've been dealt.

Obviously as a kid you collect hockey cards.

In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I'm not playing. During symphonies, I sit, but sometimes I stop playing to conduct. Being seated in a section allows me to feel more like we're playing chamber music, which is how I like to approach it.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.

I like to show my cards and see people's reactions.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

I would love to just continue playing characters that break the mold. I like making interesting decisions when playing characters, so, taking something that would seem one way and then playing it a different way.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

I had never really been around cards.

I carry cards because I don't like cash.

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.

The Super Bowl obviously wasn't in my cards, and I'm OK with that.

When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

If I changed the mindset of some players or my mindset helped some players to be better - maybe. But I don't think it was me changing anything for the club because playing for Manchester United means playing with the pressure, playing with the responsibility.

'House of Cards' is aiming for truth, not accuracy.

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

Life is a poker game, and everybody has to show their cards.

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.

We've [me and brother] been playing hockey for a long time, since we were little kids. I started playing hockey at two and a half. Obviously, playing hockey we want to be known as good hockey players and hard working guys that earn everything they get.

Direction has always been on the cards, and I love writing.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

'House of Cards' I've watched since the first day.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.

We don't have a problem killing off characters on 'House of Cards.'

I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.

The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

I'm a big baseball fan, and I love the Cards.

I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that.

I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

Directing a film in Hindi is definitely on the cards.

When I was a kid, I collected a lot of cards from all different sports.

Every plan is a house of cards.

We grew up in an age of playing reserve team football at the stadium. If the first team were playing away, you'd be playing at home, at Highbury, and there would be one man and his dog there. Even though you'd psych yourself up, you still don't get that push.

'House of Cards' was amazing to work on. I couldn't believe I landed there.

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.