Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nate Silver

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nancy Pearcey

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

Kathleen Wynne

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

Julian Barnes

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Ken Kutaragi

The name of the game is not market share, it's how fast we (Sony) can grow the industry.

Keith Richards

Songwriting's a weird game.

Kit Harington

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

Kevin Nealon

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

Ice Cube

Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.

He played great. He really never slowed down. He's had two really great games back-to-back. I'm happy for him.

Ozzie Guillen

He pitched two big games for us. It's going to be a real interesting talk.

John Gibbons

He pitched some good games in August, too, and didn't get a decision. But that's good. That's No. 12, and it was a long time coming.

He really had one of his poorer games tonight. He wasn't shooting well.

Kyle Orton

He played well. Moose is that veteran guy that has played in big games before. He's big for our offense.

Eddy Curry

For the most part we weren't even in some of the games we lost.

For the big picture, we have to hit on all cylinders. Games that were close, we were only successful in one area. Our guards stepped up and we got points out of it.

Isak Dinesen

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.

Imre Lakatos

One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.

Gregory Maguire

The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).

Geraldine Ferraro

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

Harry Redknapp

I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a ball since last season and I asked him if he'd been training.

Harry Reid

We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.

J. Paul Getty

Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Gilbert Parker

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Grant Hill

I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

Gary Gygax

Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

Gary Gygax

The idea that a game is anything more than a game... You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.

Gary Gygax

Games give you a chance to excel...

Gary Gygax

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Gary Hirshberg

Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.

Jerry Brown

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

Franco Harris

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.