Quotes about spades (16 Quotes)


    Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.



    I stay away from gambling. That's a nice way to lose all your money. I'll stick to the traditional spades game or something like that. I can't mess with the blackjack. I watch Texas Hold 'Em on TV. That's all I need.

    The first version of Xbox was about building credibility and proving to the core gaming audience that we got it. We've done that in spades with the Xbox. In a way, we're almost too associated with (hardcore) gamers.


    If they raised that much money and raised it that soon, it'll top a million. It is shaping up with the same themes as the Rural Heritage Initiative, just more money because the agriculture community is going to be there in spades.

    I thought to myself that with the raise he made, he looked like he had a pair of 8s, 9s or 10s, ... But I thought I'd try to take a flop and catch a king, queen or a couple spades, so I called.

    You drop a land A certain type of card and then play cards on top of it. It's essentially a turn based card game, like Spades. The object is either to cause your opponent to run out of cards, or more often than not to reduce him to zero points. Everything you play will either hurt them or help you.


    What she does possess in spades is a knack for pulling her design team squarely into her corner by exuding a quality as rare as black pearls in the world of style a rigorously self-enforced humility. I have a huge ego, let's face it, ... But at the end of the day I don't need to raise my hand and say, 'Look at me I did this part, I did that.'


    Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

    One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

    Obviously, Chris has the physical component in spades. We were confident in him, but we also weren't quite sure what this guy with limited stage experience could do. And I'm amazed how well he's done. I have a ball with Chris every night.


    If that's what he wanted, I'd give it to him in spades. I wasn't going to write about it. I got enough enemies, right Theres enough people who dont like me. Im not going to go into this.



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