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.

Bruce Marthaller

The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one.

Marcia Gay Harden

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

Hayley Orrantia

I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular.

Ron Reichle

We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing.

Lauren Pittman

We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning.

John Franceschi

We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up.

Lisanne Falk

There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.

Dave Hohenthal

We're midway through the season now and I think the girls are starting to progress. We've got a lot more work to do, but I think that we're going in the right direction.

Mike Turnan

We're going to throw a number of girls on her. You have to post up on the elbow, not down on the block. If we can minimize her and their 3-point shooters, we have shot.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Kathy Raymond

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Jeff Murphy

We started off very slow. We had to refocus and get back to the things that won the first set for us.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.