Deck Quotes

• 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.

  

  Eric San
  • Playing
  • Pushing
  • Deck

• I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • Mean
  • Arms
  • Belly

• When he come up in the club he be blazin up Got stacks on deck like he savin up

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Clubs
  • Bragging

• 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
  • Opinion
  • Influence
  • Cards

• Because we had two sessions today, we're managing Marty, Steve Donald and Siti, who have got a few aches and pains, but we're expecting them all to be on deck.

  

  Ian Foster
  • Pains
  • Deck
  • Sessions

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

  

  George Washington
  • Play
  • Wells
  • Peacock

• That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Party

• And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.

  

  Scott Rigell
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • America

• If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though.

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Stills
  • Mess
  • Deck

• From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Plant
  • England

• That's all you get," said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his torso. He tossed it away, and walked through the liter of bodies to where Namatjira was kneeling on the deck. "Please! My lord primarch! Please, I beg you!" Namtjira pleaded, his hands making a desperate namaste. Alpharius drew his boltgun. "Why?" shrieked Namatjira. "Why are you doing this? "For the Emperor," said Alpharius, and pulled the trigger.

  

  Dan Abnett
  • Body
  • Lord
  • Desperate

• If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Games
  • Cards
  • Clubs

• If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baby
  • Baseball

• Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Men
  • Speak
  • Bridges

• There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Brother
  • Silence
  • Lying

• Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Humor

• 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
  • World
  • Memories
  • Able

• Why did people run around in random directions when shooting started instead of literally hitting the deck to stay out of the line of fire? How stupid could you get?

  

  Cheyenne McCray
  • People
  • Running
  • Fire

• I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Remember
  • Boat
  • Seeing

• There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

  

  Elsa Triolet
  • Breathe
  • Ship
  • Deck

• Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Play
  • Needs
  • Exploration

• I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Neglect
  • Areas
  • Chairs