Quotes About Game

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

They played that wild, strange, ancient game of morra, which with its antics, its vociferation, its twinkling, dazzling, ceaseless movement of the fingers, so utterly bewilders the stranger who watches it. They looked to mo like maniacs. But to be sure, if dogs ruled in the world they would very often raise the cries of " Rabies!" against very many human actions and grimaces.

Héctor se dio media vuelta y salió de la habitación. Estaba dispuesto a jugar el juego, siempre y cuando alguien le avisara de quién era la pelota, dónde era el partido que se jugaba, contra quién jugaban y cuáles eran las reglas.

He'd lost a bet with his head cook Rico about last week's Broncos game, and he'd had to shave it off. Bastard.

time is forever frozen in a loop of the eternal present, while life away from the board comes to seem unbearably fast-paced. They therefore constantly seek to rediscover that state of grace, that nebulous yet limpid condition of dominion, that comes only from concentrating the mind on the game.

Chess players tend to have the same biased attitude, convictions and irritants. e toward the game as they do toward the world, with their own likes and dislikes

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

Too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game.

La esperanza es un juego estúpido.

He gestured at the brief and brutal lay of stones between us. "Look at that. Why would I ever want to win a game such as this?" I looked down at the board. "The point isn't to win?" I asked. "The point," Bredon said grandly, "is to play a beautiful game." He lifted his hands and shrugged, his face breaking into a beatific smile. "Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

Cuando pido Greysdale en Anker's, saben perfectamente lo que quiero decir —expliqué—. Si pidiera algo que no existiera, alguien podría descubrir el juego. —Y tú ¿cómo lo sabes? —le pregunto Sim a Manet. —Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo —contestó.

Tak reflects the subtle turning of the world. It is a mirror we hold to life. No one wins a dance, boy. The point of dancing is the motion that a body makes. A well-played game of tak reveals the moving of a mind. There is a beauty to these things for those with eyes to see it.

And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game.

Deferential, but not obsequious. Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

Tak reflects the subtle turning of the world. It is a mirror we hold to life. No one wins a dance, boy. The point of dancing is the motion that a body makes. A well-played game of tak reveals the moving of a mind. There is a beauty to these things for those with eyes to see it...' I looked down at the board. 'The point isn't to win?' I asked. 'The point,' Bredon said grandly, 'is to play a beautiful game.

I do not hope that this will be the one, for hoping is a foolish game.

The mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules while the physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by nature, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which nature has chosen

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.

effort becomes enjoyable when it's seen as play, or as a game.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

As a lawyer, I break as few rules as possible, and just as in football, I play the game without fear. My college coach, Joe Paterno at Penn State, once told me to stop thinking so much. "Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody. Play fast and hard, and something good will happen. Don't be afraid to lose.

The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It's a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it's more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.