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.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Rick Burkholder

We're going to rehab him like he's going to play again.

Arthur Machen

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Ann Coulter

I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot.

Corazon Aquino

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Alvaro Uribe

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

Amy Winehouse

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

Dwane Casey

He's going to take some time to rehab it and get it well.

Garry Kasparov

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Mike White

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Michael Moskow

I was surprised they wanted to talk about education.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

Andy Jones

Yes. As a non-smoker, I think it's very unfair that smokers go off and have a break, when I just can't.

Sven Eriksson

No one is untouchable, it would be unfair to say that.

Chris Rock

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

Dean Ryan

It is unfair for him and us that he comes in on a one-off.

Hillary Clinton

We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

Mike Keenan

They were put in a position, in my opinion, that was unfair to them,

Neil Gaiman

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

Marianne Moore

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

John O'Hara

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive....