Games Quotes - Page 256

If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV.

I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video games.

To me, comedy is a game.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

There are no winners in real games.

The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

To me, the fun part of hitting is the thinking part. It's the game within the game.

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount of time and then you have to stop. Or you at least have to accept that you're not going to be at the top of your game. And that's OK.

I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too self-conscious about what you're doing, so you're not too worried about it.

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.