Deck Quotes
198 quotes by 173 authors
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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,…
— H R Giger
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Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo…
— Gustave Flaubert
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A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my…
— William Blake
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The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so…
— Ogden Nash
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Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs…
— Herman Melville
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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…
— Denise Levertov
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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…
— Lucretius
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If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but…
— Jack Handey
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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…
— Alice Notley
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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…
— Anthony Holden
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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…
— David Blaine
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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much…
— Low Thia Khiang
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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors…
— Warren Buffett
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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
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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…
— Joshua Foer
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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…
— David Blaine
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You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance…
— Dave Barry
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Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a…
— Pope Clement XIII
Who Wrote These Deck Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 198 Deck Quotes, led by these top contributors: