Games Quotes - Page 25

• It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.

  Louise Erickson

  Love, Justice, Clubs

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• Every breath you take and every move you make
  Every bond you break, every step you take
  I'll be watchin' you
  Every single day and every word you say
  Every game you play, every night you stay
  I'll be watchin' you

  Sting

  Song, Moving, Night

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• And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

  Tony Parsons

  Stars, Twilight, Cat

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• Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, Design, Important

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

  Michael Moore

  Inspirational, Islands, Goal

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• Courtship is a commitment -
  it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

  Joshua Harris

  Heart, Commitment, Play

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.29, Multnomah

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• All games contain the idea of death.

  Jim Morrison

  Ideas

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Men, Painting

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• I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

  Jim Morrison

  Art, Hero, Literature

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

  Ken Thompson

  Exercise, College, Video

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• If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.

  Neil McDonald

  Kings, Sacrifice, Careers

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• Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Beautiful, Television

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• Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.

  Les Brown

  Successful, Together, Needs

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• We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

  Will Wright

  Time, Space, Say Anything

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• I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

  Jim Evans

  Serious, Students, Study

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• But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us.

  Michael Horton

  Heart, Tasks, News

  Michael Horton (2009). “The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World”, p.20, Baker Books

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• If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'

  John Madden

  Video, Remember, Call Me

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• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Toilets, Violent

  "Bombing Our Illusions". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Kids, Simple

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• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

  Will Wright

  Change, Play, Cities

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• Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Money, Important

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1986). “Science of Hitting”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

  Will Wright

  Power, Doe, Generations

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• War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

  Cormac McCarthy

  War, Unity, Lasts

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.

  John Madden

  Funny, Team, Winning

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• The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

  John Simon

  Player, Jars, Pressure

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