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"One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat."
"Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth."
"I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see."
"Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly."
"Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her."
"The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me."
"I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology."
"There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games."
"The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals."
"Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962"
"You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game."
"The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish."
"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."
"Basketball isn't just about the bright lights, packed arenas and highlight reels. Basketball is a way of life. Basketball is a relationship between you and the ball, you and your teammates. If you love the game, nobody can take that from you."
"One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be."
"The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows."
"I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing."
"Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life."
"Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician."
"Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
