Arcades Quotes

• To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Gamer, Gaming, Ultimate

  N64.com Interview, www.ign.com. April 17, 1997.

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• I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

  Jane Lynch

  Kids, Hung

  "Adams on Reel Women: In our Jane Lynch Interview the "Wreck-It Ralph" heroine gets animated". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 11, 2013.

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• I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

  Kylie Minogue

  Years, Games, Next Level

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• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  Anna Kendrick

  Artist, Thinking, Fire

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• If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

  Rob Kardashian

  Winning, Fire, Singers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

  Peter James

  Sorry, Machines, Might

  Peter James (1991). “Sweetheart”

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• I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

  Ernest Cline

  Kids, Play, Watches

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• I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

  Ray Lewis

  School, Games, House

  "Ray Lewis Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. June 3, 2004.

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• Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.

  Trip Hawkins

  Moments, Fashionable

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• I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.

  Diego Corrales

  Block, Games, Would Be

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• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Church Bells, Years

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.25, Vintage

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• A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Silly, Golf

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• Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Domes, Helping

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.611, Wordsworth Editions

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• It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through the arcades.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Summer, Love Is, Hands

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• I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted.

  Melissa Rauch

  Thinking, Games, Long

  "Talking About Carnivals with Melissa Rauch". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  Jack McBrayer

  Kids, Men, Play

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• Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

  Peter Zumthor

  Wall, Believe, Simple

  "Swiss-made Serpentine pavilion presents garden of tranquility" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

  Chris Hedges

  Sports, Military, War

  Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But after six years he feels the urge to get in the studio with musicans he likes. He closely follows bands like Arcade Fire in recent months. But he is inspired by ancient Chinese folk and jazz these days as well.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

  Ernest Cline

  Dragons, Games, Office

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• Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.' But suppose you had to choose?' Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.' There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!

  Patrick O'Brian

  Hands, Two, Differences

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• There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

  Walter Benjamin

  Turtles, People, Personality

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• When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, Latin, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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