#cards

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn't have known. The only things I noticed were silver bracelets on women's wrists and popsicle sticks in potted rubber plants. There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. No car, no car stereo, no silver bracelets, no shuffling, no dark blue tweed suits. My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless—a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine. My first circuit must have been wearing thin. My real memories were receding into planar projection, the screen of consciousness losing all identity. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#identity #stars #life

Dear Alec & Magnus, It's Izzy. Got your card. Glad you're having fun. Nothing's happening here-Clary's mom is marrying some werewolf. I think you guys should get married too. I'm thinking about planing it. I love planing parties. -Isabelle ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #magnus-bane #postcards #love

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#nature

Wow, Cross. I think you missed your calling. Screw demon hunting: you should clearly be writing Hallmark cards. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#hallmark-cards #sophie #demons

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

— Steve Ballmer

#company #google #house #real

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bluff #cards #eye #go #i

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.' ↗

— Count Basie

#announce #basie #beware #biggest #business

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#business owners #capital #cards #credit #credit cards

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

— Malcolm Wallop

#identity #nation #national #national identity #need

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards. ↗

— King Farouk

#england #few #five #four #king