Games Quotes - Page 153

The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.

It's not like we have not had close games. We've just been able to win them, and as a result, the reality sometimes doesn't set in that you're weak in certain areas or you're not doing certain things well. ... When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

That's the thing about this game -- you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.

Believe it or not, goals can change a game.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

England are playing fantastic cricket at the moment, they have a great team and I know all the Aussies are looking forward to getting over there. We'll be doing everything in our power to get over there and win every game if possible.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

I'm not someone who goes around the locker room before a game trying to motivate my teammates. I don't say a lot before the game. I don't say a lot in general. It takes too much energy to do that.

Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.

Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

Business is the most exciting game.

I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.

What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.