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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• Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together.

  Hillary Scott

  Beautiful, Workout, Blessed

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• All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

  Frances Mayes

  Notebook, Color, Sky

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• I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

  Josh Duhamel

  Men, Hiking, Backyards

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

  Ann Landers

  Hands, Gnarly, Feet

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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