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Quotes About Game

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
~ Cassandra Clare
You are interfering in my business, warlock." Magnus spat blood into his face. "You are torturing a child in my city, Shadowhunter. [...] I thought we were playing a game where we said what the other person was and what we were doing." Magnus told him. "Did I get it wrong? Can I guess again? are you breaking your own sacred Laws, asshole?
~ Cassandra Clare
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares
~ Catherine Fisher
When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I've always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
IN LUDO VERITAS. In the Game Is Truth.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never meant it. They mean they are tired of this particular game, and would like to start another." "Yes, please, I would like to start another." "That's not magic I have, love. You're in this story. You must get out on your own if you are to get out at all.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Ancestors. Ghosts. Ghosts we're still married to even though we can't see so much as their shadows on the ground. We're no better than pieces on squares, in a game the past plays with the future.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Yeah," he said, rolling his eyes. "Because when I think 'game architect' and 'engineering,' I think 'extrovert.
~ Cathy Yardley
Cómo sabemos si es posible encontrar una solución óptima para un juego u otro problema bien definido? Un problema se considera «insoluble» si el único medio conocido para hallar la solución perfecta exige verificar un cierto número de pasos que aumenta exponencialmente con su magnitud.
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
Certo oscilla fra contrattempi e incastri senza numero il gioc'a tombola della nostra vita. Non si conosce mai chi si vuole, ma chi si deve o chi capita, secondo che una mano sleale ci rimescoli, accozzi e sparigli, disponendo o cassando a suo grado gli appuntamenti sui canovacci dei suoi millenni.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.
~ Gideon Haigh
No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.
~ Gideon Haigh
Well," continued Hilary, "it felt like somebody's face! You know when you play water polo, and you push a chap's face with your foot—" "What sort of water polo do you play, for heaven's sake?" asked Richard Cowes.
~ Gladys Mitchell
It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.
~ Gloria Steinem
It was a game, and life was the playing field.
~ Gloria Steinem
Long-continued practice is necessary to make any one a first-rate player at Battle-door and Shuttle-cock. As this game is an extremely noisy one, it ought never to be played near any one who is sick or happens to be subject to headaches. Like many other games, it is more agreeable when played in the open air.
~ Riddles and Rhymes, 1893
Badminton is for the birds.
~ Badminton joke
Debugging — the classic mystery game where you are the victim, the detective, and the murderer.
~ Internet meme
But cards are war in disguise of a sport...
~ Charles Lamb
POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.
~ Author Unknown