Deck Quotes

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Henry David Thoreau

Travel, Journey, Wish

Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

Ann Landers

Hands, Gnarly, Feet

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I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Anjelica Huston

Thinking, Healthy, Love Relationship

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As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

Tom Hiddleston

Football, Children, Player

"Thor - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

David Ortiz

Sports, Walking Away, Games

Associated Press, October 10, 2003.

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Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Eminem

Love, Music, Rap

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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

Barney Ross

Blue, Buoys, Standing Alone

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I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.

Irvine Welsh

Strong, Track, Trying

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Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

Kid Koala

Trying Different Things, Littles, Pushing It

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I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Casey Affleck

Fish Tanks, Remember, Boat

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

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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

Laura Hillenbrand

Sea, Pitching, Ships

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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

Sally Ride

Space, Floating, Flight

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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Van Jones

Fighting, Past, Hands

Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.36, Nation Books

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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

Tarot, Different, Cards

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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

S. J. Perelman

Fate, Bottom

"The Rising Gorge". Book by S. J. Perelman, p. 183, 1961.

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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

John James Audubon

Exercise, Sea, May

John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

David Lloyd George

Blood, Sea, Storm

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A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

Ely Culbertson

Cards, Hierarchy, Masters

"Total Peace: What Makes Wars and how to Organize Peace".

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There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

Jerry Nachman

War, Thinking, Iraq

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The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Linda Chavez

Law, Employment, Literature

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To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

Joshua Foer

Memories, Order, Two

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You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

Jose Saramago

Winning, Hands, Gambling

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Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

Jenny Eclair

Height, Problem, Wells

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There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

Merle Shain

Inspirational, Life, Play

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These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Rick Bragg

Smart, Home, Thinking

Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.15, Vintage

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