Aces Quotes - Page 4

• My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

  Eliza Coupe

  Brother, Writing, Goes On

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

  Mark Steyn

  Tennis, Guy, Cultural Relativism

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• Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Team, Rain

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• The three cards were the Moon, the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting." Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about.

  Richelle Mead

  Moon, Talking, Interesting

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.475, Penguin

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• I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range...The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, People, Judging

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• I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

  Wes Anderson

  Real, Kids, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great way for Ace to get [its] message out.

  Bill Rancic

  Way, Messages, Difficult

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• In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the Slow philosophy is taking the time to do things properly, and thereby enjoy them more.

  Carl Honore

  Philosophy, Marketing, Age

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspirational, Softball, Husband

  "Softball star Finch set to retire". www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.

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• There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

  Jim Carrey

  Talking, Two, Actors

  "Major in Success". Book by Patrick Combs and Jack Canfield, 2003.

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• The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

  W. H. Auden

  Hero, Pilots, Aviation

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• To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Eye, Luck, Agility

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• Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist
  I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it.
  A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.

  ASAP Rocky

  Hip Hop, Waiting, Different

  Song: Goldie, 2013

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• Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

  Joseph Sobran

  Giving, Presidential, Liberty

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• When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

  Dean Martin

  Gambling, Tables, Opponents

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• Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.312

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• If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

  Kinky Friedman

  Names, Would Be, South

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• Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.

  Busy Philipps

  Cake, Class, Cities

  "Busy Philipps: Reality Show Wunderkind". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 22, 2013.

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• If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Kings, Winning, Odds

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

  John Vanbrugh

  Order, Gentleman, Four

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• I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Kissing, Thinking, Magic

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• I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

  Pele

  Soccer, Believe, Player

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• There's always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and that is the MacGuffin. The whole thing is about who's gonna get the MacGuffin. This piece that this Ace of Spades blog wrote is that's how the media covers [Barack] Obama, and I have observed this in different ways over the years.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Hero, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.

  Burt Reynolds

  Team, Made, Shows

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.

  Wale

  Independent, Successful, Men

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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