Deck Quotes

Deck Quote of the day

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

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.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.

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

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

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.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

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.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

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?

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

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.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

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 to be dealt one of them.

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

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

You can shuffle my deck any day!

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.

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

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

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

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

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.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

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

You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

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.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

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.

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.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

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.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

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.

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?

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.