Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Solow

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

Wallace Stevens

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

Will Wright

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

Will Wright

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

Will Wright

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

Will Smith

The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens.

Warren Buffett

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

Warren Buffett

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

Warren Buffett

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

Warren Buffett

The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.

Warren Buffett

We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.

Warren Buffett

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Vladimir Kramnik

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

Vladimir Kramnik

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

Vladimir Kramnik

Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.

Vladimir Kramnik

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Vladimir Kramnik

I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

Will McDonough

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

Walter Alston

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

Wayne Rooney

I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

Samuel Richardson

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Salman Rushdie

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

Wesley Snipes

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

W. H. Auden

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

Virginia Graham

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

Tony Yayo

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game,

Tony Parker

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

Van Morrison

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Ty Cobb

He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.

Wilford Brimley

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

Wayne Brady

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Wayne Brady

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.