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Games Quotes - Page 67

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

"Bill Nye: U.S. risks losing its space edge" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2012.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

François Danican Philidor, Sir William Jones, Benjamin Franklin (1824). “An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples of Games and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions ; Including the Whole of Philidor's Analysis with Copious Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c”, p.237

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

"Fictional character: Derek Zoolander". "Zoolander", Comedy, 2001.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.121, Random House

I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.

"Read the Fergie interview transcript... on holding grudges, listening to American Civil War tapes on the way to work, handling Man United's millionaires and why he thinks Pele is THE all-time No 1". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

The game women play is men.

Adam Smith (2015). “The Money Game”, p.83, Open Road Media