Game Quotes

Exploration is a dirty game.

~ Tahir Shah

You can let go of all that stuff you thought was real when you know it's just a game. What a relief, what a state of grace that brings.

~ Jay Woodman

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied.

~ A.g. Starling

[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] “When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit player call a time out because of a cramp and then watch that player sit back and casually converse and laugh while you do your best to keep your mental focus and your body moving so you don’t grow cold and cramp yourself, I hardly think you’d concern yourself with his burgeoning manhood, let alone his thighs!

~ A.g. Starling

He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on court.

~ A.g. Starling

Life is like a game - we should be curious to play it - you explore and learn and grow - that is what it is for - that and having fun. It all expands consciousness- your own, the collective, and the cosmic.

~ Jay Woodman

We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.

~ Jay Woodman

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

~ Jacques Derrida

Direct action is not always the best way. It is a far greater victory to make another see through your eyes than to close theirs forever.

~ Kriea/Darth Traya

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy - the amazing world around us that we can explore, each incredible detail, the lives, and the stories we tell ourselves or experience so that we can feel what it's like to be human, the things we can learn from an interaction, about ourselves as well as everything and everyone else.Everyone is here in their own story, writing the script as they go, living the movie picture.... choosing who to meet, what to do, how to react to each new experience. We each find our own tools to help us traverse the terrain of each particular part of our journeys. It cannot be right to judge another, or yourself, for we are all at different stages, or on different stages. We do as we need to according to where and how we find ourselves, but the more you realise that you actually put yourself exactly where you are in each moment, the more your eyes will widen. You are an amazing Being playing the game of life - your attitude makes all the difference.

~ Jay Woodman

A familiar sensation sparks inside me, the one I had a few years ago, the one that hurts because it’s dangerous and overwhelming. Knowing how it is to truly love someone is torturous. You try to bury that feeling. So you become lonely, deprived, and when you sense anything remotely like it, the emotion comes back to haunt you. It’s one sick fucking game.

~ Danielle Esplin

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

~ Bill Courtney

Don't hate the game, hate the player... the player should have known better than to play the game in the first place.

~ Nyki Mack

​Retaining Character is the Toughest Challenge for Humans when they Level Up.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

~ Vera Nazarian

When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.

~ Munia Khan

The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Affect the main character or characters and you win the game.

~ Deyth Banger

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Your life is not a simulation, it's the real game. Play wisely.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. We’re equals after all. There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens. We’re all humans and we all have the same value.

~ Cristelle Comby

Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.

~ Daniel Willey

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book...

~ Deyth Banger

Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.

~ T.f. Hodge

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.

~ Dan Harmon

The game is a thread, microscopic in breadth, a hint of gossamer drawing unsuspecting souls together in simple competition to the exclusion of all else, from a mother and her infant playing peekaboo to two old men hunched over a chessboard and everything in between. The game unifies, joining father and son pitching baseballs at night after a long day at the office, pitches pounding the mitt or skipping past, one time even knocking the coffee cup handle clean off and the boy scampering off to retrieve a wild one as the dad sips and ponders. The game allows brothers to bond even when the age gap is too great for real competition, their mutual effort to fashion a bridge between disparate age and ability forming a bond of trust and respect. And finally, it is the game’s presence and past and its memory that inspires each of us to forgive time and aging and their inevitable accompanying attrition because the gray and hobbled old man before me was once lean and powerful and magnificent and some of what became of him was due to the investment he made in me and after all the batting practice he threw and grounders he hit, his shoulder aches and his knees need replacement. Even though youth masks it so you don't realize it all when you’re a kid, someday it happens to you and suddenly you realize you are him and you are left wishing you could go back and tell him what you now know and perhaps thank him for what he gave up. You imagine him back then receiving nothing in return except the knowledge that you would someday understand but he could not hasten that day or that revelation and he abided it all so graciously knowing that your realization might be too late for him. So you console yourself that in the absence of your gratitude he clung to hope and conviction and the future. Turn the page and you find yourself staring out at the new generation and you wince as his pitches bruise your palm and crack your thumb and realize that today the game is growth and achievement and tomorrow it will be love and memories. The game is a gift.

~ Drew Rogers

This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh.” The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game.

~ Iain M. Banks

In Middle Earth a motley crew assembles to save the world as we know it. Four hobbits, two men, a dwaft, an elf, and a wizard, too. They rambled to destroy the ring in the mountains of Mordor. Now it is you time. Dare you join this fellowship? The rules are simple. Twelve more clues will be hidden. One for each month. You have a month to solve each riddle. Plenty of time. On the full moon of each month, the next clue will be hidden. Seek it. Leave each where you found it for the next traveler. Where does this quest lead? What is the endgame? Follow and you shall find out. You must be wise, learned, disciplined, and above all, not a FROG. If you agree to join this fellowship, proceed with your first clue: MY WORDS are legend. Legends are HISTORY, My field of study.ONE BOOK only in your shire. With your strength, the book has been found, and now you must climb to the Scholar's Shrine. Four travelers begin this talle: Hlaf Elf, Troll, Halfling, and Thief. To make it to the end, you will need to build a motley crew. Find a wizard to see you through. You walk a long and winding path to find your next clue. Shall the Half Elf teache you his songs to pass the time? Perhaps that will draw an elf lord into your presence. The road is long, and the leaves do change color. You have demonstrated your strength, and your intelligence: now you must go boldly into battle. Be wise with your strategy: though it my seem like a game, there is more to the story.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

In every competition, it's not just a great deal of talent that you need. Everyone who joins have that or else they would not be so confident to be in the race. Focus though is the one thing that most people don't have. So you have to stay the most focused. Do not stray from your goal. If you want to win the game, you have to be in the game.

~ Laarni Venus Marie Nillama

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

Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.

~ J.r. Rim

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

~ Orson Scott Card

Welcome to 'Eartholpoly', the game where you're not in control.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

And tonight the stars again ask me your name?And I just smile, playing the guessing game!

~ Avijeet Das

What time is it?Three a.m. Michael's making a snack. You want anything?Um...no. Thanks. She slid off the couch and then stood there like an idiot, unwilling to leave because he was still smiling and...she liked it. Who won?Which game?Oh. I guess I was asleep for a while.Don't worry. We didn't let the zombies get you. This time, his smile was positively wicked. Claire felt it like a hot blanket all over her skin.

~ Rachel Caine

As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the Loguidice Law)

~ Bill Loguidice Matt Barton