Deck Quotes - Page 8

• You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

  Denise Levertov

  Flower, Night, Doors

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Light, Air

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• 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

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands.  The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

  Anthony Holden

  Hands, Two, Cards

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• Obedience decks the Christian most.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Christian, Obedience

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.177

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• The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

  Hillary Clinton

  Typical, Favors, Ceo

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

  Greg Bear

  Motivation, Fighting, Thug

  Greg Bear (2011). “Hull Zero Three”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

  George Washington

  Play, Wells, Peacock

  George Washington (1888). “Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation”

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• Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

  Henny Youngman

  Two, Cards, Fifty

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• There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Eye, Animal, Hands

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• We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.

  Mark Cuban

  Real, Tuition, Stuff

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• So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Pride, Rose

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Play, Cards

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

  Amor Towles

  Decision, Vision, Twenties

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin

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• To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Views, London

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.63, Cooper Square Press

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• If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Wisest Man, Hands

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

  Florence King

  Vanity, Lust, Twenties

  "The Florence King Reader". Book by Florence King, 1995.

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• I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.

  Max Barry

  Book, Thinking, Guy

  "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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• Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Defense, Pardon Me

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• I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

  Joe Torre

  Yankees, Two, New York Yankees

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• The white light is the joker in the deck. It creates transmutations that are completely unpredictable, which is what makes it fun, which is why it scares the hell out of most people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Light

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• 20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Smart, Phones, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

  Valerie June

  Home, Native American, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.

  Adam Beyer

  Mixing, Three, Way

  Source: www.spin.com

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