119 quotes found
“In life, we are all playing the game of thrones one way or the other”
“We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.”
“I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how wel...”
“I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.”
“With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.”
“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
“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 appr...”
“Be it a 'slide' in a children’s park, or one in the play-fields of life; the mantra is same. “You climb up and you slide down.”What is missing in the later years is the enthusiasm with which the ki...”
“He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as hi...”
“When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.”
“Influencing is just not about listening and speaking, it’s the game of interpretation.”
“Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain ...”
“If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.”
“The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™”
“If there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?”
“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”“How do you win?” he asked.“That,” I said, “is such a boy question.”“What, girls don’t like to win?” He snorted. “Pleas...”
“A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn’t impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.”
“Most ball games are lost not won.”
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”