Games Quotes

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

Bobby Orr was a star when they played the National Anthem in his first game.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.

Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.

Today, you've got hedge fund billionaires aligned with Karl Rove, running ads against me to try to get Democrats to vote for you [Bernie Sanders]. I know this game. I'm going to stop this game.

Of course, the economy has not been working for most Americans. Yes, of course, we have special interests that are unfortunately doing too much to rig the game.

Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

I have given my life to the game and to the sport.

I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game.

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

I'm conscious about what I wear, whether it's a game or an event.

Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.