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Quotes About Games

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.
~ Jonathan Brownlee
I've always liked the competitive games. It's hard for me to play games that are just kind of casual. It gives me another outlet for competition, and that's what 'Fortnite' does.
~ Gordon Hayward
Taffarel was also outstanding when Galatasaray won the UEFA Cup in 2000. I watched the games of 'Gala' a lot in my childhood.
~ Ilkay Gundogan
In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.
~ Constance Zimmer
I know, for me, that I love wrestling, and I love games, so there was already an overlap there because all of my friends growing up were the same.
~ Xavier Woods
So many people pretended interest in one thing while truly seeking to benefit their own desires. She was thankful she'd learned early on about the games people played and the falsehoods of fools.
~ Tracie Peterson
After a week, in the casual outdoor hour on the veranda or under the royal palms, Herman introduced us to Mexican card games and trivia quizzes, and cartoons that required us to explain in Spanish what was happening to the little dog in the snowstorm, or the bewitched doll in the toy shop. And there were toys, too, little trucks and cars and tiny buildings, which we held and made the subject of a story.
~ Paul Theroux
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
~ Dave Barry
Yes, and the body has memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.
~ Claudia Rankine
Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.
~ Claudia Rankine
There are no risks, loops, tricks, booby traps or funny games in love -- only truth or lies.
~ Unknown
Wolsey always said that the making of a treaty is the treaty. It doesn't matter what the terms are, just that there are terms. It's the goodwill that matters. When that runs out, the treaty is broken, whatever the terms say. It is the processions that matter, the exchange of gifts, the royal games of bowls, the tilts, jousts and masques; these are not preliminaries to the process, they are the process itself.
~ Hilary Mantel
Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.
~ Holly Black
If you regret your move, make another. There are games yet to play.' 'I already won,' I remind him.
~ Holly Black
If you regret your move, make another. There are games yet to play.
~ Holly Black
You like it, don't you? Playing games with us? Pulling our strings and seeing how we dance?
~ Holly Black
Give me an order again," I say, "and I will show you true shame. Locke's games will be as nothing to what I make you do.
~ Holly Black
his kindness was jarring and made me wonder what he wanted in return for it. I was used to tricks, to games.
~ Holly Black
Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.
~ Holly Black
Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.
~ Guy Ritchie
In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly out spying on competition. For example, Valve in Seattle tries to keep their location a secret.
~ Rony Abovitz
I'm grateful to Van Gaal: he brought me to United and I played 71 games so I wouldn't say a bad word.
~ Ander Herrera
Van Gaal is how you see him in the press conferences; he's like that with us, too. He's honest and straightforward. He believes in his style of training and way of preparing for games.
~ Juan Mata
I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.
~ Fred Davis