Quotes on Gamer

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.