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.

Dick Bruna

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Bob Kane

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Auberon Waugh

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

Adolf Hitler

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

Janet Jackson

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Alan Dershowitz

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

D. H. Lawrence

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

David Axelrod

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.

Angelina Jolie

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Aidan Chambers

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

Aidan Chambers

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

Bliss Carman

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bill Plympton

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.