Pinball Quotes

• If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Doors, People

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.

  Steve McQueen

  Machines, Tilt

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• I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

  Emile Hirsch

  Balls, Machines, Want

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• There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Perfect, Pints

  Tom Hodgkinson (2007). “How to be Idle”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

  Heinz Pagels

  Machines, World, Clock

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

  Tom Robbins

  Cheating, Winning, Games

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.226, Bantam

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• It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Light, Rocks

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• I just always loved pinball.

  Kevin Dillon

  "Kevin Dillon Talks ‘Entourage’ Ending, Keeping Johnny Drama Alive". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

  Rex Hunt

  Beautiful, Kids, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

  Chip R. Bell

  Games, Giving, Advice

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.96, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

  Bill Budge

  Looks, Stuff, Honest

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• Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Opposites, Games, Alive

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• I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

  Matt Groening

  Machines

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Couple, Home, Machines

  Interview with Will Wright, www.develop-online.net. March 23, 2009.

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• I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Mind, Machines

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.99, Anchor

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• Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.

  Sherry Turkle

  Real, Color, Law

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.69, MIT Press

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• Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.

  David Louis Edelman

  Journey, Today, Complexes

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• I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

  Ed Robertson

  Band, Machines, Canada

  Source: www.people.com

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• And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.

  Jack Spicer

  Mean, Thinking, Tree

  Jack Spicer (2010). “The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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• In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Fun, Games, Play

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• Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sadness, Laughing, Machines

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

  Robert J. Marks II

  Fall, Steel, Balls

  "Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks". Interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 3, 2010.

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• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  Iggy Azalea

  Children, Memories, Dad

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

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• The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.

  Hulk Hogan

  Brother, Home, Thinking

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• My cat is completely blind. I am watching her now, sweet-pea that is, circling the kitchen floor and bumping into the kitchen chairs. She is kind of like a furry ball in a pinball machine...she bumps into something and then just turns and moves on...it makes me smile - although i know it's just not that funny. I think i laugh because what i really feel like doing, is crying

  Jann Arden

  Sweet, Moving, Cat

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