#games

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age? ↗

— Stephen King

#men #age

Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming. ↗

— Tom Bissell

#tom-bissell #video-games #why-video-games-matter #design

You're lucky I was on that roof all day. That old man... he was trying to sell you a Sega product. ↗

— The Harvard Lampoon

#games #humor #sega #humor

Crying is not an option. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#the-hunger-games #inspirational

You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #peeta #suzanne-collins #the-hunger-games #love

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#elephant #games #had #i #kids

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands. ↗

— Hope Solo

#course #family #focus #games #going

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#different #different characters #fun #games #i

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#did #games #going #got #guy