Quotes about Games
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.
- Kirsten Dunst
I grew up watching games with my father at Washington Husky Stadium. When I moved out to Seattle, I had a friend who would take me to Seahawks games in the 1980s.
- Paul Allen
I wasn't too good at playing games, but I did love reading very much and would have spent my life at it. I had human angels, fortunately for me, to guide me in the choice of the books which, while being entertaining, nourished both my heart and my mind.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
I feel like we bring in a lot of money to the universities. We put in a lot of work. Some guys don't have enough money to bring their families to the games... so I feel like athletes should be compensated for it.
- Kyler Murray
Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He
- Cormac McCarthy
For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
- Oscar Wilde
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
- Wendell Berry
Linux had paid little attention to the games themselves. The sport of blood had never held him. Linux had a warrior's scorn for gladiators and the maiming of man or beast as entertainment. But for Jacob, a young Judean lad with no concept of Roman games, it clearly had been a terrible shock. The boy's occasional shudder indicated the level of his distress.
- Janette Oke
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
- Peter Kreeft
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I was growing up, there wasn't too much technology. There weren't so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.
- Andre Iguodala