Famous Quotes about Games Well, they were about books, but I thought they could also apply to games.
What I do sometimes is just walk up and down and think about what's in games, because they remind me of all there is. And the world is so much bigger than what people remember. -- Susan Sontag There are games so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't playing, the game has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same game? -- Marina Tsvetaeva This is not a game, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. -- Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer Good games don't give up all their secrets at once. -- Stephen King A classic is a game that has never finished saying what it has to say. -- Italo Calvino Like dreaming, playing a game performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But playing is not dreaming because games, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. games are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place. -- Victor Null A game is like a man--clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a game like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. -- John Steinbeck Of the needs a game has, the chief need is that it be playable. -- Anthony Trollope Only two classes of games are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst. -- Ford Madox Ford The multitude of games is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for games. . . . I wish that all my games were consigned to perpetual oblivion. -- Martin Luther games are like imprisoned souls till someone installs and plays them. --Samuel Butler Game players may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all games that they play and return them in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a game for the sake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they play. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they play, and enable others to profit by it also. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge games are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. -- Jesse Lee Bennett You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you play a game. It was games that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. -- James Baldwin The games that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy playing; but a great game that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -- Pablo Neruda A real game is not one that we play, but one that plays us. -- W. H. Auden In the case of good games, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. - Mortimer J. Adler I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of playing games. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy games, free games were the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to download them and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which games are being put down, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. -- Isaac Asimov The best of a game is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes I think we ought to play only games that bite and sting us. If the game does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother playing it in the first place? -- Franz Kafka A game if necessary should be a hammer [or] a hand grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of looking at the world. -- Wole Soyinka Some games leave us free and some games make us free. - Ralph Waldo Emerson That is a good game which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. --Bronson Alcott ... a great game should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while playing it. - William Styron You know you've played a good game when you've finished the last level and feel as if you've lost a friend. -- Zora Neale Hurston What really knocks me out is a game that, when you're all done playing it, you wish the person that developed it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call them up on the phone whenever you felt like it. -- J.D. Salinger Properly, we should play for power. Man playing should be man intensely alive. The game should be a ball of light in one's hand. -- Ezra Pound A game is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty hours to blow him up with a game. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a game can keep on exploding for centuries. - Christopher Morley games are the carriers of civilization. Without games, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara Tuchman For games are more than games, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. -- Amy Lowell One glance at a game and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for years. To play is to voyage through time. -- Carl Sagan These are not lifeless games, but minds alive in the computer. -- Gilbert Highet games are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. -- Joseph Addison The world of games is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of games are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead. -- Clarence Day It is far more seemly to have thy computer full of games than thy purse full of money. -- John Lyly Where is human nature so weak as in a game? -- Henry Ward Beecher A game is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a game with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on, you are enriched threefold. -- Henry Miller The instruction we find in games is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. -- Voltaire A game lying idle in a computer is wasted ammunition. Like money, games must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. -- Henry Miller There are worse crimes than deleting games. One of them is not playing them. -- Joseph Brodsky Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good game kills reason itself. -- John Milton The surest way to spot a non game player: someone who comes into your house, looks at your games and asks, "Have you played all these?" - Charles Taylor Don't join the game deleters. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go to your computer and play every game. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower The failure to play good games both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency--the belief that the here and now is all there is. -- Allan Bloom A closed mind is like a non-played game: just a block of wood. -- Chinese Proverb Just the knowledge that a good game is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. -- Kathleen Norris --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
