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.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

William Shakespeare

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the residue of planning.

Brad Jarvis

Then I read the book, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and that really got me thinking, ... Until then I hadn't really thought a lot about planning for the future.

Dick Hamilton

It's the culmination of six long years of planning and work,

Steve Kramer

It's a question of what seats we are planning to run for.

John Bohn

They're as big a part of planning as we are and I regret that they didn't see it as we did.

Jon Preiksat

They really didn't put the time into planning what's best. They rushed into a project that really required a lot of thought and a lot of planning.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Nigel Barker

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Francesca Zambello

Working with Placido Domingo, we have coined the term 'American Ring,' and the designers and I are using American history, mythology, iconography and landscape to set the operas.

Carine Roitfeld

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

Cynthia Steffe

It's odd that a lot of designers were on the Slavic slant.

Mary Lambert

It's taken me a long time to enjoy shopping. As a plus-size girl, you walk into a store, and it can sometimes be like a designer doesn't know you exist. It's become a fun treasure hunt.

Rob Bennett

There were 30 to 60 different designers that all had their own style, own taste in their own rights were great but no flow to the house.

Ted Demme

It's a place of fabulous people from all types of businesses: movies, fashion, music, art, with politicians, photographers, graphic designers and pro athletes,

Gitte Lindgaard

It really is just a physiological response. So Web designers have to make sure they're not offending users visually. If the first impression is negative, you'll probably drive people off.

Charles Pollock

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.