Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Pete Martinez

We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess.

Jack Womack

We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

Larry Gerston

like a three-dimensional chess game. . . . The key is that the messages not be too far apart.

Bobby Fischer

When I was eleven, I just got good.

Bobby Fischer

Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Bobby Fischer

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Edward Everett

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Aberjhani

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

Douglas Kennedy

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Andrew Bacevich

For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

Ameen Rihani

To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.