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Quotes About Game

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.
~ Hermann Hesse
But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.
~ James McBride
I like to have a good time. I'm playing a great game, so why should I stop smiling when I get on the field?
~ Jim Edmonds
What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.
~ Joey Harrington
The future toyed with us, it was up to us to try to enjoy the game. But not everyone liked the game or they weren't given the tools to play.
~ Carrie Adams, The Godmother
Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
~ Warren Spector
Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.
~ Rob Manuel
There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.
~ Branch Rickey
Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
~ Mary Karr
Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, "go in," as if it were some stray relative in search of lodging.
~ Mary Karr
Who the hell let you animals into my office? I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess right now with a man that kept saying King me.
~ Matt Fraction
And love Such a silly game we play Like a summers day in May What is love What is love I just want it to be love
~ Matt White
Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.
~ Maureen Johnson
Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?
~ Maureen Johnson
Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal. Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.
~ Maureen Johnson
it's not cool, Vi said. You've been waking people up, you're damaging stuff we like, that we use. We all have issues, dude. Get over yourself. I thought learning was a game, David said. Why is no one having fun but me?
~ Maureen Johnson
I was discovering, the difficulty of competing in a game where there were no clearly defined rules, a game in which your opponents are not merely trying to put a ball through a basket or push it across your goal line, but are instead trying to convince the broad public—at least implicitly, more often explicitly—that in matters of judgment, intelligence, values, and character, they are more worthy than you.
~ Barack Obama
They were actors in a rigged game, I decided, and I wanted no part of it.
~ Barack Obama
This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My "Kentucky NCAA Champions" shirt was by now so bloodstained, you would think I had worn it to a North Carolina game. Also, I had feathers sticking to my hair.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
No one. I'm a pawn in this game. You're always first to say how unimportant I am. But at least I will be the pawn who tells the truth.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
There's a saying I like. 'Denial has no survival value.' If you're going to play, you have to at least recognize what the game is.
~ Barry Eisler
And of the Thule, who carried large stones into their camps and set them up in a pattern for a jumping game, like hopscotch.
~ Barry Lopez