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.

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Carter

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Chris Bosh

Yeah, that was my best scoreless game ever.

Chris Bosh

If you don't see anything wrong with your game, you need to wake up.

Chip Kelly

You don’t get a trophy after halftime. We don’t look at the scoreboard until the end of the game.

David Sedaris

Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.

David Mitchell

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

Dave Barry

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

David S. Goyer

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

David Rudisha

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

David Moyes

Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.

Bryce Courtenay

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

Cesc Fabregas

Apart from Arsenal and Barcelona, I don't see myself playing anywhere else. I will definitely be going back (to Arsenal) whenever I have time to watch games and to see the guys… and if there is one place to go back to (to play), it is Arsenal for sure.

Catherine Deneuve

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

Carlos Zambrano

You have to enjoy the game. I enjoy everything about life.

Caitlin Stasey

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Cal Hubbard

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

Bryan Robson

We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"