Card Quotations

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

Paul Daigneault of The SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston gave me my Equity card playing Marta in 'Company' right before I graduated Boston University. He knew my next stop was New York. I cannot say enough good things about the SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there's a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances.

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day.

I introduced myself to then-Lieutenant General Petraeus and told him about my research interests; he gave me his card and offered to put me in touch with other researchers and service members working on the same issues.

Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.

I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You'll be glad you did.

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.

There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.

The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.

If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

I like presents that a man has spent time on, doing them himself, like a card or anything that is made by hand and from the heart.

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.

I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.

In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'

The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.

Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.

Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That's one reason why you get so many credit card offers.

More black voters than white voters had their ballots discarded, no matter what kind of voting system was used. Punch card ballots cheat voters, and they are much more likely to cheat African-American voters.

My actions are not based on some kind of report card out there or marching in lockstep to any specific group. I can't be all things to all people. They are not the only constituent base out there.

One of the questions the Commission is looking into is the fees that the banks must pay each other for carrying those credit card payments, and there we expect a decision before the end of the year.

My husband and I started dating when I started coaching in 1989, and he puts a card and a Snickers bar in my car. Even when he's out of town, he hides the card and Snickers bar somewhere in the house and then calls and tells me where it is.

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

Obviously we're in an environment with the friendlier interest rates, ... The first sector that does well (after cuts) -- except for the credit card issuers -- is the retail stores.

One percent of all the sales that you make on their credit card are devoted back to the local community school that the customer chooses. That creates a lot of customer loyalty,

One time, we were up in Cooperstown and Judy got sick, and Dallas Green went to the hotel manager and gave him his credit card

Only a very, very small number of our two million accounts were impacted, but we took the precaution of canceling additional card accounts to be safe.

No one anticipates divorce when they're exchanging vows, and it can be devastating emotionally and financially. To ease the financial side of the blow, you need to maintain your financial identity in your relationship. That means having your own credit history - you need your own credit card - and your own savings and retirement accounts.

Moscow hopes to use energy as a trump card to persuade the Western leaders that it's a powerful player to reckon with.

Monday Night Football' and the bubble-gum card -- that was kind of important being in the league if you could do that.

Monday Night Football and the bubble-gum card ? that was kind of important being in the league if you could do that.

My decision on how we go into the Honduras game is going to be based on the yellow card situation and the injury situation. We want to continue to improve and not just use the Honduras game as a nothing game. We want to get our players some more international experience and use the Honduras game to prepare for the semifinal.

My dream is that someone would buy the card and use it some kind of anti-smoking campaign for youngsters. There's potential there.

Maybe the first yellow card was a question. The second was merited, a little inexperience on Bobby's part.

Obviously, it's important he doesn't get a yellow card, ... But he can't go into the game -- and I'm sure the manager won't ask him to go into the game -- worrying about that yellow card because it could affect his performance.

Obviously the Iranian thing is a wild card and nothing's going to get resolved in the short term, but the earnings are really what's key to the market and any longer-term perspective.

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

If these people aren't carrying (as much of a debt) load, and credit card companies aren't making money off them, then they could turn to people like us to cut our rewards.

I don't know what the red card was for. They didn't give me much of an explanation. But it put a sense of urgency in our guys that we didn't have before, and we answered the call.

If we can hit these economic numbers and the earnings are good, and we can chug a little higher this week, that would be helpful. The wild card is still oil.

If they don't have a green card or foreign passport, they're not going to get anything. Because they're likely to be an illegal alien.

Many of the Mexican officials have talked about this Matricula card openly and stated that it was their way of getting around the Amnesty problem.

Last year we felt we were robbed by getting a red card against Cactus and Sabino won, so this was kind of redemption. We got our redemption and I'm really happy.

Since implementation is always a wild card as China struggles to build nationwide uniformity in the legal system, there will always be concerns about inconsistent or selective application of the law.

Six months from now when the next uber awesome graphics card comes out we can take advantage of that right away. PC games can always evolve.

Most people have no idea how long it will take to pay off a credit card if they only make the minimum monthly payment.

(Shannon) stated that they ran at the subject, at which time the subject fell or tripped to the ground. (Shannon) stated once the subject was on the ground, Kelly kicked the subject in the back of the head. (Shannon) stated he and (Kelly) then continued to kick the subject. (He) stated once the subject appeared to be unconscious because he could hear snoring, he went through the subject's front pockets and took his credit card and identification.

She doesn't play the gender card or the race card in the debates, but when she's in the streets and in the churches, she makes it very clear that she's a proud black woman who is out to make history,

She brought a customer's credit card information home. The way we caught her was she ordered pizza with it.

Whenever you make a claim to the credit card company, we actually have to prove that it was you, so it protects us by saying we checked ID.

Mack has quietly embarked on a restructuring program that should improve profitability and create substantial value for shareholders over the next two years. One wild card catalyst is a potential purchase or merger of equals.

So, good advice is, if you're thinking about booking, use a credit card. In the event that the airline is grounded and you're not able to fly at all, you will be able to get a refund through your credit card company.

So far, we've given out 104 cards this year. We want every child to have a card and know that this is their library.

So far we've had 40 families, give or take a few, ... They're going to relatives and friends all over eight different counties. We don't have the FEMA credit card to give them so what we have to do is write a check.

Simply calling your credit card issuer and asking them to lower your interest rate may yield immediate savings.

Shifting debt from one card to another can get you in trouble if you just accrue more debt.

Several trends about online buying continue to develop -- especially regarding credit card security -- that could have major effects on the evolution of Internet commerce.

So if you're in another state, what you do is surrender your AAA membership card in lieu of payment. This doesn't jeopardize service; if you get a flat later, they can look up your membership number.

She should have worked for Hallmark; she could find a card for any occasion,

She should make a commitment to some overtime each month, perhaps one weekend. Every dime of that overtime should be committed to an additional payment to the top card on the Obnoxious List.

What I can see here is that I think our quality (of racing) will go up, ... We usually get a lot of Louisiana horsemen anyway. The wild card is what will happen with the Louisiana-bred money.