Shuffle Quotes

• You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

  Darren Flutie

  Central Park, Live Your Life, Chocolate

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• It's always been eclectic; you never know what you're going to get.

  Andre Agassi

  Central Park, Live Your Life, Chocolate

  "Andre Agassi, 20 Years Later". Interview with Frank Sun, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 26, 2015.

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• Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.

  Austin Grossman

  Eye, Men, Champion

  "Unconventional Education Fuels Author's First Novel". Interview with James Hattori, www.npr.org. October 14, 2007.

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• Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Zero, Arbitrary, Lines

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.67, Penguin

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• For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Cutting, Winning, Numbers

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• I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Apples, Simplicity

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• Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.

  Michael Bywater

  Book, Feet, Embarrassing

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• Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Law, Sky

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• Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s wife] was crying and so was I and I tried to laugh it off but that turned into this enormous sob in front of everyone and I just thought, oh brilliant. I just found it terribly moving. Martin is just amazing in that last bit, it’s beautiful, that kind of incomprehension and devastation, it’s fantastic, with his sort of military shuffle at the grave. Fantastic.

  Louise Brealey

  Beautiful, Military, Moving

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• When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

  Camilo Jose Cela

  Cards, Debt, Things To Do

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• There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, War, Loss

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.57, Yale University Press

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• It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'

  Billy Joel

  Sweet, Memories, Son

  Song: Piano Man, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

  Laurie Anderson

  Trying, Kind, Forget

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• Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment.

  Philip Gulley

  Pain, Lunch, Alarms

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.127, Zondervan

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• You can hate me, but why knock my hustle? I'ma be the queen no matter how they shuffle.

  Nicki Minaj

  Queens, Hate, Hustle

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• Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Responsibility, Men

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• I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

  Miles Davis

  Writing, Half, Drummer

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Joy, Forever

  "Margaret Atwood: 'I have a big following among the biogeeks. 'Finally! Someone understands us!'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

  Joan Didion

  Kindness, Real, Winning

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

  William Styron

  Morning, Fun, Sleep

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Color, Odds, Add

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• Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.

  William Martin

  Dream, Children, Self

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• Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Distance, Mean

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• As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Freedom, Responsibility, Choices

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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