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Quotes About Game

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
~ Tom Wolfe
Often I imagine that living is a game of rock-paper-scissors: fate beats hope, hope beats ignorance, and ignorance beats fate. Or, in a version that has preoccupied me: the fatalistic attracts the hopeful, the hopeful attracts the ignorant, and the ignorant, the fatalistic.
~ Yiyun Li
This is what I know: if we stopped writing now, we would never make it to Paris," Fabienne said. "You see, it's like a game. We don't know when the game is going to be over, but since we've already begun, and since we don't have another game to play just now, we may as well stick with this one.
~ Yiyun Li
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
~ Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
~ Yogi Berra
The prisoner's dilemma
~ Yong Zhao
First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.
~ young steve
I had long since cut ties with that world, like a yakuza stepping out of the game and washing his hands of it once and for all. I had no more use for dreams. Dreaming was for the moviegoers, fingering their pulpy paper tickets. Not for me.
~ Yukio Mishima
The second explanation is that by the time Sapiens reached Australia, they had already mastered fire agriculture. Faced with an alien and threatening environment, it seems that they deliberately burned vast areas of impassable thickets and dense forests to create open grasslands, which attracted more easily hunted game, and were better suited to their needs. They thereby completely changed the ecology of large parts of Australia
~ Yuval Noah Harari
It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.
~ zelazny roger iii
I still know in my heart that it is a Godless, dirty game; that love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth and is about the equivalent of people who stimulate themselves with dirty post cards-
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
You can always make up in creativity what you lack in good fortune. Playing the game of life is like playing poker. Playing three aces badly won't get you as far as playing a terrible hand well.
~ zelinski ernie j
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?
~ zelinski ernie j ii
The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.
~ Zig Ziglar
But they're not really paper dolls," Melanie said. "And I don't really play with them, not like moving them around and dressing them up and everything. They're just sort of a record of a game I play. I make up a family and then I find people who look like them in magazines and catalogues, just so I'll remember them better.
~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The grand prize in us versus them is that somebody gets to feel special for a while. The grand prize in the game of unity is that everyone gets to feel special forever.
~ Deepak Chopra
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
~ Dennis Bergkamp
La vie est très similaire à un jeu de cartes, où vous avez absolument aucun contrôle sur la main que vous recevez. Et pourtant vous avez un excellent contrôle sur la façon de jouer le jeu avec ces cartes pour rendre votre jeu incroyablement agréable. Donc cesser de se inquiéter à propos de la main que vous recevez; jouer vos cartes, et profiter du jeu! Cheers! Au Revoir!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Leben ist sehr ähnlich zu einem Kartenspiel, in dem Sie haben absolut keine Kontrolle über die Hand, die Sie behandelt sind. Und doch haben Sie eine ausgezeichnete Kontrolle auf, wie man das Spiel mit den Karten zu spielen das Spiel erstaunlich angenehm. So aufh
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Life is very similar to a game of cards, where you have absolutely no control over the hand you're dealt. And yet you have an excellent control on how to play the game with those cards to make your game amazingly enjoyable. So stop worrying about the hand you're dealt; play your cards right, and enjoy the game! Cheers!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
There is an interesting difference between a Cat and an Oxford Comma. You see, a Cat has claws at the ends of its paws, and an Oxford Comma is a pause at the end of a clause. It's all a game of claws and paws for a Cat, while an Oxford Comma is governed by clause and pause.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
We have this idea for a 'Where's Wally' type thing, except in ours, you'd have to find the one living person hiding in among all the dismembered corpses while the chainsaw-wielding killer hunts him down. You know, for kids. - Donegan
~ Derek Landy
Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.
~ Jimmy Armfield
The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.
~ Robert Payne