Quotes About Game

He should never have allowed himself to accept Daisy's challenge, should never have stayed and played that bloody game for hours. It was just that Daisy had been so adorable, and while they played her attention had been focused entirely on him, and that had been too much temptation to withstand. She was the most provoking, beguiling woman he had ever met. Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

Is that how you play?" Daisy asked breezily. "I just envision how I want the bowl to go, and then I roll it.

They emerged from the bed some time later to feast on the delectable cold supper that had been left for them, slices of game pie, salads, ripe black plums, cake soaked in elderflower cordial.

Once the game is over,' " he says, " 'the king and the pawn go back in the same box.' " "In life and death we are equal.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn really do go back in the same box. In death they are indeed equal. But in life, we are not. In life we are a product of more than our decisions. We are the consequence of how we cope with those decisions, and too often that is fear and guilt. Don't let it be fear and guilt.

Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bézique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out of the French court: it was the game of the cavaliers, a game of waiting between battles.

Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bezique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out of the French court: it was the game of the cavaliers, a game of waiting between battles.

It's a game of constant adjustment and the guy that adjusts the best is the best player.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

Luck, be a lady tonight.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

Cricket — a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

You said you're lonely You said you're blue You lost your lover Let me console you If you surrender You'll feel no pain Cause I'm the master Of this game

A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. —Earl Wilson

Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat.

In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.

Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed.

but one of them had rolled a higher initiative this round

Sex is no longer a beautiful thing, she said. It has become an entirely separate entity from what was quaintly known as making love. It's been transformed into a game between the sexes. It is as deceptive as chess and as anonymous as those men in helmets, racing cars on TV. This generation of men and women have turned it into a frenetically overenergetic contest and a performance. The more outlandish the game, the more popular it becomes.

At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly.

We were playing a story game Bucky had invented called the Last Supper. It consisted of allowing those evil, avenging creatures of God—horseflies—to light on the exposed skin of your arm or leg and take a bite. At that point, you make up an epitaph, which you deliver to the horsefly as he eats his last meal, and then you flatten the little bastard. The speeches are voted on by those in attendance, and the best speech wins a bottle of wine.

That we had been drawn, both by a misapprehension of the local rhetoric and by the manipulation of our own rhetorical weaknesses, into a game we did not understand, a play of power in a political tropic alien to us, seemed apparent, and yet there we remained.