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.

Chiaki Kuriyama

Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

Charlize Theron

I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"

Chamique Holdsclaw

I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do.

Chaka Fattah

At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.

Charlie Munger

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

Charlie Munger

The investment game is getting more and more competitive.

Bernhard Langer

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

Bernhard Langer

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

Bernhard Langer

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Eddie Mathews

I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

Ed Belfour

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

Dayo Okeniyi

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

David Icke

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.