Deck Of Cards Quotes

• 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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• Life is not a matter of holding good cards

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Cards, Matter, Life Is

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• The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

  Beryl Markham

  Loneliness, Natural, Abhorrence

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

  Beryl Markham

  Knowledge, People, Lifetime

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling.

  Lady Gaga

  Makeup, Thinking, Hair

  "Lady Gaga: Critical Mass Fashion" by Leonardo DaSilva, www.sfgate.com. October 3, 2010.

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• When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

  Truman Capote

  Self, Hands, Whips

  1979 In Vogue, Dec. Collected in Music for Chameleons (1980), 'Music for Chameleons'.

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• I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Integrity, Believe

  "Katy Perry: The Interview". Interview with Rose Apodaca, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 3, 2010.

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• To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

  David Blaine

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.

  Brian Greene

  Finite Number, Order, Numbers

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• I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.

  Omar Sharif

  Thinking, Hands, Cards

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• One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Dark, Self

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• Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation , followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

  David Blaine

  Perseverance, Simple, Practice

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

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• I really like Barack Obama. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe. He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. And I'm not saying I agree with everything he's doing. He's a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he's just done something that's amazing.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Odds

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• I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Sex, Integrity

  Interview with Rose Apodaca, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

  Christopher Moore

  Real, Two, Giving

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Cards, Records

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• But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

  David Copperfield

  Cards, Stage, Deck

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• 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

  Mother, Tarot, Cards

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

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• One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

  Daniel Handler

  Kings, Queens, Popular Entertainment

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• As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

  David Blaine

  Pain, Simple, Thinking

  "How I held my breath for 17 minutes". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2009.

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• He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!

  Bobby Heenan

  Wrestling, Cards, Looks

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• One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Islands, Games

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• You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

  Beryl Markham

  Dog, Loneliness, Book

  Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards.

  Peter Brook

  Yesterday, Cards, Fields

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• Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

  Frances Mayes

  Fate, Expression, Blood

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