Tarot Cards Quotes:

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

- H. R. Giger

topic: Different, Cards, Normal, Tarot, Deck

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

- Stephan Jenkins

topic: Believe, Needs, Balls, Tarot, Crystal Ball

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

- A. E. Waite

source: A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.27, Courier Corporation

topic: Tarot, Cards, Egyptian, Tarot Cards

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

- Steven Wright

topic: Night, People, House, Tarot, Gamble

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

- Lee Ryan

topic: Boys, Psychics, Tarot, Boy Bands, Tarot Cards

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

- David Blaine

source: Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

topic: Mother, Tarot, Cards, Deck Of Cards, Tarot Cards

I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.

- Alice Notley

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Believe, Tarot, Tarot Cards

Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

- Scott Adams

topic: Time, Tea Leaves, Tarot, Horoscopes, Crystal Ball

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Reading, Tea Leaves, Tarot, Tarot Cards

I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.

- Cat Stevens

topic: Brother, Hands, Astrology, Tarot, Tarot Cards

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

- Neil Peart

topic: Reflection, September 11, Tarot, Tarot Cards, September 11 2001

No! I don’t want to Ouija, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see one tarot card or rune stone I’ll yack cupcake all over you. (Grace)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.18, Macmillan

topic: Cupcakes, Grace, Over You, Tarot, Runes

Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or breaking up with her aroma-therapist boyfriend, who reads the Tarot cards of kindergarteners and says things like, "Bring Aunty Liz another wine cooler, baby, and I'll let you wear my mood ring.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Baby, Crazy, Wine, Tarot, Dairy

I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun.

- Franny Armstrong

topic: Dream, Brother, Fun, Tarot, Tarot Cards

If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates.

- Matt Taibbi

source: Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

topic: Reading, Rome, People, Tarot, Invading