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.

John Wilkins

The possibility of jail for that long; I don't think he could handle that, ... I'm sure it was drugs, mixed somewhat (with) coming-off effects, withdrawal. That would be tough on me ? to do something, then all of a sudden realize what I had done.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

Nia Long

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

Kristen Perezluha

We're going to handle this investigation with the utmost integrity, as we would with any investigation.

Mary Curtis

We're doing everything we can to handle the increasing numbers.

Mark Richt

We feel better about it today than we did going into the game. We still have to see how they do with tighter coverage. Boise State played mostly soft coverage, not much press at all so no one had to worry about getting off a jam or redirecting or that kind of thing. We'll see how they handle a little more pressure.

Robby Cunningham

We're ready to go no matter what. We do have technology on the shelf to be able to handle this.

Matt Koff

We knew they'd come at us with pressure. I think our weakness is being able to handle the pressure.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Edgar Bergen

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Bill Murray

Be available for life to happen.

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Tom Pecora

We're getting there. We still haven't had a night where everyone is playing their total A-game. But that's OK. I'm hoping that happens next weekend.

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?

Kevin Rahm

I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

Richard Jefferson

We've spoiled people early. We could win the rest of our games, but we're going to be judged by how we play in the playoffs. This is good. This is great. But we understand that's how we're going to be judged.

Kamala Harris

I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Douglas Jerrold

Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second glass.

Gary Bettman

I think we will ultimately be judged on our response and the message that it sends. This is not a part of our game, it has no place in our game, and it will not be tolerated in our game.

Frank Morgan

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Jacques Chirac

Those who want to sow violence of fear, they will be arrested, judged and punished,

Jose Antonio Vargas

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

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.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.

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.