Games Quotes

“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.”
― Kiersten White, Mind Games

“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.”
― Ian Fleming

“Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.”
― Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night

“Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.”
― Dan Harmon

“Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.”
― Daniel Suarez, Daemon

“Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.”
― Trevanian, Shibumi

“It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.”
― Robert Heinlein in Double Star

“It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“If there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.”
― Daniel Suarez, Daemon

“When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!”
― Evinda Lepins

“Ridcully sighed.

'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers?'

The other senior wizards stared at him.

'I, I, I don't think we can play it any more,' said the Bursar, who at the moment was only occasionally bouncing off the sides of sanity, 'I, I, I think we lost some of the pieces...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I really like Google+ it's much better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life. Which is a game that can only be played and never won.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go

“Why, play we, these games of mere men?”
― Daniel A. Craig

“She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…”
― self

“So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.”
― Dan Garfat-Pratt, Citations: A Brief Anthology

“Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it.”
― Sorin Suciu, The Scriptlings

“My personal favorite version of the game, Speed Scrabble, is played with tiles only. Each player selects seven tiles. At the call to start, each player turns over his or her tiles. Using these letters, the player creates an individual grid of six letters, with two or possibly three intersecting words, selecting one letter to pass along. The first player to finish calls out the word switch, passes the rejected tiles to the player at the right, and turns over two new tiles from the general pile. Each player then incorporates the new tiles into his or her grid, always rejecting one to pass along at the word switch. Obvious rejects are Q and Z, which usually get passed around. The game is played until the tiles are depleted and one person calls out the word finished. If no one has any questions about the winner's grid, the points on the tiles are added up. Losers deduct the number of points of the unused letters. Each round takes about fifteen or twenty minutes max...”
― Michelle Arnot, Four-Letter Words: And Other Secrets of a Crossword Insider

“nice knowing ya...”
― Fake Cinna

“It's elementary, my dear Winifred.”
― Miss Mae, It's Elementary, My Dear Winifred

“School Library Journal
Gr 3–6—This interactive manual is fun to read and even more fun to put into practice. From hopscotch to dodge ball, jacks to solitaire, and string games to memory games, all types of activities are included. Games to play with a ball, with cards, in a car on the go, alone, or in a group are all here to be enjoyed. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. There are also historical and factual asides for many of the entries. Some include variations on the main game or alternate names for the activity that have been used through the years. The illustrations depict children demonstrating a particular aspect of a game or just enjoying themselves playing. This is a great resource for parents and teachers, as well as for children.—Cynde Suite, Bartow County Library System, Adairsville, GA”
― J.J. Ferrer, The Art of Stone Skipping and Other Fun Old-Time Games: Stoopball, Jacks, String Games, Coin Flipping, Line Baseball, Jump Rope, and More