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Source: The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab

“Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Earth Fighting Needed Solutions Areas Oil Saving Chairs Wilderness Tigers Seals Deck Pipeline Shuffling

Book:Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

Source: Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

“There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.”

Ifs Way Want Life Inspirational Two Play Choices Decision Deals Acting Approach Victim Cards Fighter Two Ways Deck Reacting Power Of Choice Gallant

Author:Merle Shain

“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?”

Knows Different Normal Cards Presentation Deck Tarot Tarot Cards

Author:H. R. Giger

“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 of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?”

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

Night Caps Brows Deck Stockings Nightcap

Book:Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East

Source: Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East

“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 grave: Such end true lovers have.”

Love Ends Air Fine Lovers Despair Graves Silk Deck My Smile True Lovers Yew

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“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 fertile.”

Thinking Life Sex Humorous Clever Fertile Deck Turtles

Author:Ogden Nash

“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 round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.”

Men Fighting Animal Sea Dog Ready Horror Red Tables Rounds Hungry Ships Meat Smoking Sharks Bolts Deck Gazing Red Meat

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“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 over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.”

Years Stills Bigs Night Next Doors Tree Flower Neighbor Over You Shed Honored Dropping Needles Deck Cones Wakes You Pine Trees Arbor Day

Book:Sands of the Well

Source: Sands of the Well

“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 winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.”

World Firsts Light Earth Air Tree Fields Color Wind Return Hills Grass Soil Shore Trusted Springtime Meadows Deck Newborn Flowering Birthing Shimmer Greenery

Author:Lucretius

“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 poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.”

Believe Kind Beautiful Used Lying Interest Depth All Kinds Cards Symbols Experts Unpredictable Floats Manipulate Deck Tarot Tarot Cards

Author:Alice Notley

“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.”

Two Hands News Cards Fifty Good News Bad News Deck

Author:Anthony Holden

“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.”

Ifs Feels Whole Feelings Hands Process Rooms One Thing Special Cards Pockets Poetic Touching Seconds Pulling Magician Digging Deck Most Amazing Shuffling Deck Of Cards

Author:David Blaine

“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 is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.”

World Soul Shows Light Action Can Do Dark Powerful Fire Tasks Gold Shining Your Soul Sparks Signals Stretching Fixing Deck Calming Stormy Dark Times Flare

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“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 for a first world nation.”

People World Firsts Sometimes Nations Wonder Interviews Void Reporters Session Singapore Deck

Author:Low Thia Khiang

“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.”

Men Stills Grew Grew Up Plant Old Man Hiking Deck Backyards Tinkering

Author:Josh Duhamel

“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 when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.”

“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.”

Remember Used Mother Given Cards Gypsy Deck Tarot Tarot Cards Deck Of Cards

Author:David Blaine

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

Stage Cards Deck Deck Of Cards

Author:David Copperfield

“'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.”

Used Memories Records Minutes Cards Fallen Devices Seconds Championship Deck One Minute Memorizing Playing Cards Deck Of Cards

Author:Joshua Foer

“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 rates.”

Funny Increase Rate Careful Holes Boat Be Careful Sailing Deck Sailboat Insurance Rate

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“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 very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!”

Should Lying Force Color Should Have Catholic Salvation Errors Appearance Ease Subtle Transition Confession Deck Diabolical

Author:Pope Clement XIII

“Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.”

Faces Law Games Sky Convince Gambling Boss Pits Dealer Entrances Deck Moron Shuffle Sky High

Author:Frank Scoblete

“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.”

Knows Needs Black Ships Sail Sailing Pearls Deck Caribbean Nautical Keel Hull Black Pearl

Author:Johnny Depp

“On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.”

Looks Real Done Play Turns House Garden Bottles Afternoon Saturday Deck Real Work Work To Be Done Chardonnay Saturday Afternoon

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

Feels Wells Problem Bits Height Deck

Author:Jenny Eclair

“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.”

Needs Mean Hands Girl Careers Technology Math Engineering Deck Navigate Hurdle Clearing Science Technology

Author:Michelle Obama

“If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad”

Ifs Ads Deck Powerpoint

Author:Lee Clow

“For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.”

Way Trying Years Made Home Fun Wave Eras Wheels Copies Clay Surfing Surf Deck Skateboarding

Author:Jay Adams

“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.”

Needs Hands Past Fighting Asks Energy Conscience Colleagues Explaining My Past Deck Time And Energy Precious Time

Book:Rebuild the Dream

Source: Rebuild the Dream

“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. 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.”

“Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.”

Way Giving Soul Sometimes Inspiration Motivation Chance Prayer Clear Clouds Selfishness Lifts Settling Fog Vessel Egotism Sailor Steers Deck Above The Clouds Give Us A Chance

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Love Looks Music Car Periods Music Is Hip Hop Radio Rap Hips Best Things Hops Tape Deck Rap Music

Author:Eminem

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

Standing Blue Tied Deck All Alone Destroyers Tied Up Standing Alone Buoys

Author:Barney Ross

“Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.”

Fate Bottom Deck

Author:S. J. Perelman

“It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time they were working in common. Everything in the way of naval routine was sacrificed for the time to the objects of the cruise, and the appearance of the deck and bow of the Blake was often more that of a mud-scow than of a vessel in the service of the United States.”

Source: A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer

“I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!”

Knows Men Hands Five Objects Lays Nine Deck Aces

Author:W. C. Fields

“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.”

Selfish Unwilling Deck Refinement Obstinate Busybodies

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“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.”

Simple Practice Magic Training Breaths Perseverance Ridiculous Pursuit Cards Relentless Experimentation Deck Shuffling Deck Of Cards

Author:David Blaine

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

Sports Harder Deck Great Sports Inspirational Football Great Coach Sports Spirit

Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.”

Sometimes Reader Window Welcome Pet Serving Throwing Prohibition Deck Subversive Clearing Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Craig Lancaster

“When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.”

Humans Stills Faces Human Beings Mouths Gun Revolutionary Torture Heroic Heroism Brushes Chamber Deck Firing

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.”

Men Trying Kind Play Seems Young Minutes Cry Six Credit Cards Clock Boards Young Man Encounters Lasting Twelve Schedules Eastern Credit Card Deck

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“Men have not stacked the decks against women.”

Men Deck

Author:Warren Farrell

“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.”

World Two Able Order Three Hours Memories Minutes Masters Amount Cards Precise Deck Feats Superhuman Playing Cards

Author:Joshua Foer

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

Made Quality Wide Queens Curtains Deck Trailers Redwoods

Author:Sammy Kershaw

“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.”

Looks Bigs School Used Red Window Driving Bus Deck

Author:Brian Johnson

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