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.

Louis Navellier

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Robert Stephens

The only people who have time to learn all this stuff are geeks who stay home on Saturday night.

Kate Bush

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

John Tesh

I was a geek in high school. I was about the same height I am now, a 6-foot-6 15-year-old with braces, smelling of Clearasil. The only way out was to get into a rock band. ... By the end, I was a rock and roll keyboardist who smelled of Clearasil.

Steve Tillotson

He's a real nice, hardworking guy. We don't begrudge him anything. But, gee whiz, we can't just ignore this. We're not doing our job if we do.

Breakfast tiffany's

Holly: All right so he's not a regular rat, or even a super-rat. He's a scared little mouse, that's all. But oh-- golly gee damn!!!

Erica Cerra

I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek!

Jon Cryer

I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.

Sean Burke

We knew they would throw everything at us.

Bill Otte

We knew they wouldn't go away and they chipped away. It's a rivalry for a reason.

Jack Coit

We knew they would be tough inside; they have some physical players.

Randy Matthews

We knew they were working on a no-huddle offense. And, we've watched their films.

Mike Adras

We knew they were not going to quit. We're all playing for our lives at this point, so we knew they weren't going to go away.

Damarius Bilbo

We knew they were going to try to take Calvin out of the game. Same as last week with Auburn.

Rick Carlisle

We knew they were going to make runs. We knew Wade was going to play big down the stretch. When that happens, we had to keep our poise and composure. We did that and made the plays we had to make to win.

Mike Gundy

We knew they were going to make mistakes. We knew they were going to make big plays. We didn't want them to think if they did something wrong they weren't going to get back in forever.

Randall Stallworth

We knew they were going to make a run. They were playing like that throughout the tournament.

Phil Garner

(I was) trying to get something on the board. Luke Scott's a low-ball hitter, and (Willis) is a low-ball pitcher. I like the matchup. It didn't work so well.

Bob Hill

We just couldn't make a shot. Ray couldn't make a shot. Luke couldn't make a shot. ... We couldn't sink our teeth into the game.

Adolf Hitler

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

Aaron Allston

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

Mark Hamill

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.

Errol Flynn

Luke Flynn will play his grandfather Errol in

Mark Hamill

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.

Ricky Martin

I played Luke Skywalker. Every time we played, I was Luke Skywalker. Nobody else could be Luke Skywalker.

Lute Olson

He is probably 50-50 for Saturday (against California).

Daryl Cagle

You'll see that Saturday just about every strip will be about 'Peanuts' in one way or another,

Jini Reynolds

On Saturday afternoons today, you'll find women spending time with their families, traveling or at the gym.

Mike Cope

If we're staying within the footprint, to me that's Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. With that being the footprint, why did we designate Saturday only? I don't understand that.

Brian Jones

Everything Saturday is going to be gardening-, plant-, rose- and flower-related.

Arthur Travers

We've never seen him in here before Saturday night.

Oriol Servia

It's OK, because I still have Saturday and Sunday,

Leigh Foreman

I used to go to theater a lot with my grandmother. She had a subscription to the Theater Guild; I used to go with her every Saturday afternoon.

Mike Stephens

There would be a lot of Thursday, Friday, Saturday games.

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Darren Shan

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Carolina Herrera

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Bernie Ecclestone

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Bear Grylls

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.