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"Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it."
"We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets."
"That was probably one of the things that if I look back at my career and say what is something I would try and do a little bit differently, I’d try and be a little bit more loose playing the game. Have a little more fun doing it."
"Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity."
"Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone."
"Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank."
"The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye."
"It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging."
"No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game."
"I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fans and I love them! It's just a fun game to play."
"The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens."
"How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts."
"We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area."
"The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine."
"Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare."
"No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players."
"Poetry is a mug's game."
"I think I can change the game."
"There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts."
"What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it."
