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.

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Nathalie Dechy

She served very well and mixed her game. I had a lot of opportunities but simply couldnt take the lead,

Lauren Bacall

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

Christy Romano

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Damon Lindelof

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

Allan Radel

We're a very mixed family, but a very, very tight family.

Hannah Marks

I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.

Zygmunt Bauman

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

Lynn Duncan

People would like to see some kind of mixed use as opposed to 100 percent condominium.

Derek Jeter

Moose, don't tell me you're throwing all your pitches yet, are you?

Jeff Blauser

He could throw two pitches for strikes pretty much whenever he wanted. When you can do that, you'll be pretty effective.

Bobby Howard

He just started to get his pitches up. I thought he pitched well enough to win.

Lou Piniella

He's a lot responsible for the way we've played. To me, he's pitching with a lot more confidence. You can see it out there. But that's what winning does for you. You get aggressive, you make better pitches and you make better choices.

A.J. Burnett

I threw a lot of pitches early, a lot of 2-2 counts, a lot of 3-2 counts. You've got to put them away when you get ahead.

Ralph Carlson

He must have fouled off 24 pitches in a row before he got that hit.

Jim Tracy

When he's right, he's throwing quality pitches down there.

Ken Howe

We swung at a lot of first pitches and got outs. It minimized what he had to do for work on the mound. My hat's off to him.

Jack Leggett

His was up around 95 pitches and that's all he is going to go. We have to be able to stop it there.

Al Oerter

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Brian Bannister

When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.

Carl Erskine

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Keegan Bradley

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

George Johnson

There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.