Quotes of: Playing-games Keyword

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's abou...

Michael Jordan

Building discipline, earning respect , and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you...

The Game Within the Game

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these...

Steve Carell

When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. T...

Prince of Thorns

Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how t...

Fudoki

Antonio: [suave] And my dream is to one day play video games for a living. Margo: [romantically] Wow. [chuckles] Margo: You're so complicated. Gru: Margo... [the tweens look up and, once seeing Gru, Margo gasps in astonisment] Gru: [attempts a smile]...

Despicable Me 2

Simon: Is there a detective named McClane there? Inspector Cobb: He's on suspension. Simon: No, Walter, he's not. Not today. Inspector Cobb: Who is this? Simon: Call me Simon. Inspector Cobb: What do you want? Simon: I want to play a game. Inspector ...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Mrs. Hudson: Doctor, you must get him to a sanatorium. He's been on a diet of coffee, tobacco, and coca leaves. He never sleeps. I hear multiple voices as if he's rehearsing for a play... Dr. John Watson: Leave him to me. Sherlock Holmes: [appears ne...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Cryptonomicon

People who score zero are not only those who do not participate in the game, but also those who play very well but have no goal in focus!

Daily Drive 365

The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Dodger

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

Eumeswil

Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.

Frost Burned

We are spirit in human form playing a game called earth life. Enjoy the experience!

Book of One: -): Volume 1 Lightworker's Log

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

Any Duchess Will Do

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

The Innocents Abroad

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Invisible Monsters

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

The Pillars of the Earth

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.

Presumption of Paternity

He's been so successful, arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. If you were trying to follow his footsteps, it would be incredibly difficult. I'd go crazy if I woke up every day and tried to compare myself to Peyton Manning.

Andrew Luck