Games Quotes - Page 13

• God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Fear, War, Marine

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• Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Fighting, Sweat, Wake Up

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.

  Robert Benchley

  Attitude, Two, Chess

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.24, Glendower Media

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• bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
  Or form a Piss Club where we all go
  in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.

  Anne Sexton

  Sex, Childhood, Catholic

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

  Lawrence Taylor

  Football, Heart, Nfl

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• This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Art, Swans, Hunters

  1935 Solstice,'Love the Wild Swan'.

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• Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Criticism, Hierarchy, Rhyming

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

  Bo Ryan

  Taken, Two, Balls

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• When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Essence, Names

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.

  Stefan Zweig

  Believe, Animal, Hands

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• If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

  Magic Johnson

  Reality, Hands, Justice

  "Magic Johnson says Donald Sterling should sell Clippers" by Matt Moore, www.cbssports.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

  Kathy Whitworth

  Golf, Missing, Winner

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• Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.

  Phillip Daniels

  Football, School, Player

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• This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand the economic benefits for the players and teams. Staying with the status quo is not an option. The world has changed for everyone, including the NFL and our fans. We must get better in everything we do ... If both sides compromise and give a little, everyone will get a lot, especially the fans.

  Roger Goodell

  Team, Opportunity, Player

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• In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.

  Frank Pittman

  Memories, Boys, Simple

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• One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.

  Martin Gardner

  Teacher, Science, Class

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• Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game!

  Harry Neale

  Broken, Records, Crosses

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• Doorbells are like a magic game,
  Or the grab-bag at a fair --
  You never know when you hear one ring
  Who may be waiting there.

  Rachel Field

  Waiting, Magic, Bags

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• The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished.  It's over.  It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

  Sparky Anderson

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

  Garry Wills

  Football, Prayer, Real

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• I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Play

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• When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success.

  Lil Wayne

  Flirty, Flirting, Hustle

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Real, Preparation

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• I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

  Rohan Bopanna

  Family And Friends, Sometimes, Made

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• I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.

  Nina Jacobson

  Book, Play, Perfect

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