Scrabble Quotes

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Cheating, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.52, Vintage

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• Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Missing You, Playing Jazz

  1954 In Look, 10 Aug.

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• Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

  Jean Piaget

  Long Distance Relationship, Learning, Distance Love

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• When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Long Distance Relationship, Distance Love, Love And Distance

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• Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

  Robert Breault

  Ideas, Letters, Five

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• Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

  Dennis Miller

  Xenophobia, Tolerance, Benefits

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.30, Main Street Books

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• Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Feel Better, Games

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

  Wentworth Miller

  Couple, Home, Weekend

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

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• (My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Uncles, Children

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, October 13, 2011.

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• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  Saffron Burrows

  Player, Chess, Infuriating

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• To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

  Wentworth Miller

  Girl, Home, Play

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• Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

  Kelly Link

  Hurt, Reading, Play

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.18, Small Beer Press

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• I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

  Karen Walker

  Lying, Lakes, Needs

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• Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

  Sprague Grayden

  Real, Party, Reading

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• I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

  Andrew Bird

  Player, Terrible

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• As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, College, Wind

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• I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

  Sung-Hi Lee

  Games, And Love, Bigs

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• This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more?

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing pulse going. But as far as what it's all about, there's a million ways to go. You have to invent a new code for every song. Then you have to break it. It's like Scrabble or a crossword puzzle on steriods. I could talk about the process for days. But it's never dull and there's no one way in.

  Dan Bern

  Song, Writing, Pulse

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• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Kids, Comedy

  "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.

  Bennett Madison

  Father, Heart, Player

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• Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lonely, Fantastic, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

  Moby

  Eight, Play, Tiles

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• Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Air, Circles

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